Thanks very much for the support and advice. I feel stupid for engaging, but at least I'll say that what I posted above is ALL I said. The only button she can push these days seems to be "I think you're a bad father" and even though that's not true, it still pushes me to respond. I'd like to think that this is enough to get me out of that mode for good.
I felt better when I woke up the next day. I knew there was no good response, that ANYTHING I did in that situation would have been wrong, and strangely that made me feel better.
I'm going to talk with both my C and my L about what steps to take, here. I've "known" that she's been alienating, but my strategy has been "be the sane, stable one" and that doesn't seem to be enough anymore. I've started reading up on what to do as well.
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Just reading her posts, and I don't mean this to sound offensive, but she sounds either highly unstable, or highly uneducated, as if you would see her on Maury.
A good friend of mine told me, "This is what you get for marrying someone who has been on Jerry Springer." I wish I was kidding, but I'm not. By the time I found out about that bit of her past, I was highly invested emotionally in both her and D, and went along with the "I just did it for the free trip and the money, all of it was fake" explanation.
