So i was talking to a really sweet old woman today who was telling me about her sons divorce from a long time ago. She was talking me about how the ex wife (who is a very good person) is still bitter. And how much her son has to still pay her. And how her son faithfully sees the child every week and the wife did not allow sleepovers cause the wife is over protective. And how the ex wife doesnt fill him in on info and how her son does not pursue.
I just politely listened.
But that will be the narrative that others hear from my ex mil. Now someone like me, that has been through this will empathize with the ex wife. For the mil to admit shes a good person but still bitter even though she remarried is code to me for her son really f'd her over big time in some way. Most people will not be able to decode though. And it would take a rare person to call the mil out.
I just hate narrative changes and rhia annoyed me.
