She told me today that unless I go to mediation, the children will suffer and this divorce will be contentious. I looked at her very carefully and directly in the eye and said, Let me get this straight, "you have an affair, and then try to take the kids from me, and are divorcing me and yet you want me to trust you in a mediation process without a lawyer, is that what you are saying?"
She said - "Look we have 20 years of a great relationship, full of trust and you want to judge me on 8 years of a terrible period?"
I said - You told me that the 19 years of our marriage were pure hell and you never trusted me, so which is it? "You want it both ways". Put yourself in my shoes, what would you think? Give me one reason to trust you now in light of the last 8 months?
She said the last 8 months of my behavior have shown her how vindictive and mean I am and that is why I want a lawyer to punish her. She said "I know exactly how you think". I said "Oh you are a mind reader too? You don't know what I am thinking at all."
So, I toasted her glass of coffee and said good luck and we walked off.
More crazy talk. I will try to focus on my day.
I contacted my attorney and have given him the details.
