Albac broken but pushing forward

[JRuss]

She wants to eat cake, albac. Very badly. She wants the adrenaline of an affair on the one hand and a wonderful, supportive friend she co-parents with on the other. What you are doing is working. Keep it up and intensify it, if you can.

She can't be that happy with OM if she's on the phone all day with you trying to keep you on an electronic leash. And he'll tire of that crap, too. If he was a good person, he wouldn't be doing what he's doing, and she'll get a taste of that, eventually.

Given her youth and, as you say, immaturity, I think NC is probably really making her wobble, and quickly, more so than it might with a WW whose in her 40s or older. She's not used to you being hard to keep under her thumb, and there's something scary about that. And, if she's honest with herself (probably not there yet, but will be), there's something newly very interesting about you.