Makes sense. I am glad you posted that because I was starting to doubt what I was doing! For the first time since our huge blow up he just asked me IF he could go to the neighbors/also his best friends. i said do whatever. He said well is it ok or no! I said yes. (im going to bed anyways and i need to give him spacee) so proud of myself. Also today my dad called he was at bar/restruant a few blocks from my house and offered me free tickets to fair events wednesday through sunday for free. I was not interested in wednessday event but i did take tickets for thursday friday no kids so me day Saturday D8 wanted to go watch H race so skipped those but i will take her racing and sunday got tickets. I got 3 for all of us as his kids are not with us this weekend. I asked him if he wanted to go as they are things we both like to do and i will be taking my daughter so kid involvement. he said sure. then his cousin called with tickets to a concert on sunday he asked if it was this sunday we had tickets i said yes but they were free so go ahead and go to concert. that is a 180 for me because i would have normally gotten upset said we already had plans and tried to force him to go and then when he said no i just wouldnt go. but not this time he can go ahead and i will still take daughter so I can GAL! heck all this being gone from home and not feeling like i can't/dont want to ect do anything is kind of nice. I should have kept my life!