Have you seen those old Charlie Brown clips where whenever the adults talk there is only a trumpet sound? "Whaaaaah waaah whaaaahhhh!!!!" That is all I hear when your H starts talking.

O.M.G. I kid you not: this is EXACTLY what popped into my head when I read the paragraph of his "he saids"!!!!!! All I kept thinking was: STOP validating him, T! Stop with the 'I'm-sorry-you-feel-that-way' crap! Just hold up your hand and make the motion like someone talking and look at H and said: "Dude. I see you talking, but all I hear is wahhhwahhwahh." I mean SERIOUSLY. Tell him you've heard it all before! Like, just a couple weeks ago. It's time he sh!ts or gets off the freaking pot. Buh-bye. Bye, Felicia. Won't leave the lights on for ya.

Sheesh. Talk about grand pronouncements.

T, I'd honestly stop questioning everything you're saying or not saying. Stop DBing. OR attempting to. Start back at the beginning.

And as an aside, do what you want about mentioning that you know about OW when you know H is texting her inside the family home. But I made it very clear to my H that that was not going to happen in front of me and my children in our marital home. And believe it or not, H stopped texting her while he was here. (Of course, I had smashed his phone with a meat tenderizer when I first found out about OW, so he knew I meant business. New, shiny phone be d@mned!)

Hang in there, lil mama.


M: 40 H: 44
Married 14 years
S11 & D6; D20 & D19 from previous M
2BDs/PAs, 8 years apart
Piecing: April 2014