Very interesting story Irish. I have long suspected that my H must lie about our status and his involvement with the children.
When he left he told people that I was keeping him from the children. People are not stupid. There is no way he is still telling them that 15 months later. I have surmised, as your story, that he tells people that we are getting along fine and he sees the kids as much as he can.
Who knows if it is what she wishes it would be or whether it is just that most people don't have a framework for understanding a mother who walks away from her children, and like mine she is probably tired of having to counter the arguments about you preventing her from doing so (there are courts and emergency hearings right, everyone has seen at least one courtroom drama).
