Still here. Still not detached... (Part 2)

[JRuss]

I wouldn't over analyze it. You helped out, you got more time with your kids, and you now have some co-parenting currency and goodwill to cash in in the future when (not if) you need help from her.

Also good, though, to run these things not through the old Mr. Nice Guy prism, but simply through Chris' ass-kicking prism, asking if this is something you want to do, for you and for the life (it will include her, at least until the kids are 100% self-sufficient). If in the future you don't want to give up a jam session, because maybe the request seems entitled, or because you just really need the GAL time, don't, without guilt.