The begining of the rest of my new life? (3)

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Yesterday night I skyped with STBXW.
It was the final conversation about with whom the kids shall stay.
I knew her arguments for the kids to stay with her in this foreign land and she knew mine for wanting the kids to return home.
I asked her if she would honour what she had said previously, that is, in order to avoid discussing the kids' custody she would allow the kids to stay with me.
She said yes.
She then started sobbing, sobbing, sobbing.
She said she could not picture her life without the kids.
She said it was too much.
She said S7 would never forgive her for having abandoned him.
I told her there would not pass one day without me telling the kids they had the best mother in the world, a mother who deeply loved them every single moment of their lives. I reassured her about her freedom of contacts and visits to the kids.
She kept sobbing.
She then said she would drop her job in this foreign land just to be with the kids.
(Here I need to explain something: five years ago, when I came working for this international organization, STBWX asked for an unpaid leave from her job and came joining me with the kids. Being a proud and active woman, not having work in this country decisively contributed to her depression. Therefore she was very pleased when this year she found a job in the kids' school. She has not job to return to back home. I realized if she would just come to our home island because of the kids, she would most certainly fall into depression.)
I then told her she should think about it. She said she didn´t need to. I then, in a kind of joking way, ordered her as her ex-husband not to take any decision until today. This lightened the mood and she finally accepted.
The whole time I was very firm and assertive, without being rude, while she was crumbling.
I felt such pity for her.
I feel pity for my boys.
One way or the other they will be without one of their parents.
And I think this is the first time STBWX faces the consequences of her actions.