Ok, so after the phone call on Sunday, I spoke to one of our mutual friends. He said he had also talked to H that day, as he has intermittently throughout these past few months, and said that that was the worst my H had sounded. Basically he had just ranted for 20 minutes about being stressed out about money etc. While I'm on the phone with my friend, H calls again. I don't pick up. Later I get a text from H where he apologizes and said he didn't realize the effect it was having on me. Now he's all Mr Sensitive. He has asked me to translate a few more things and wanted me to fix the formatting of a document I translated a while back. When I told him I always have problems with that, he was super nice. Woke up this morning to an email where he asked me very nicely to translate a quick paragraph asap. So I did. With a whiny kid on my lap.
Also, I resolved this annoying insurance issue. Finally got a call back. H actually has to deal with it, cause the insurance is in his name, but all he has to do now is sign something and email it back. There is a slight chance we might get reimbursed for some stuff now, so happy to have dealt with that. The old me would have made him do it, I HATE making those kinds of phone calls.
Aaaand I ordered a really nice cashmere sweater for him for Christmas. I have a few small things in mind too. I want us to have a nice "real" Christmas. And it's a little bit of an FU because I can't imagine what he got me from D.
