W and I have had a few tiffs these past 10 days, but that's okay. Most of it has been related to me setting some boundaries about what I will and will not accept in the context of a separation and my W's brow-beating me on my lifelong behavior.
I continue to waver on moving out if only because it will be very hard to do so without getting lawyers very heavily involved. And I also continue to feel that I am being emotionally manipulated out of the house.
On that score, I bought a book on Friday called "Emotional Blackmail," about how to ID and combat these tactics. I started reading and actually saw how some of my behavior could be construed as such. In any event, I slept on the couch last night and left the book in the den. W saw it this morning and wanted to know if I bought if for my behavior or if I thought it was hers, becaus if that is waht I thought she was doing--I was dead wrong. Hmmmm. I said, "Both," but she was not happy.
On the lighter (or darker) side, some of you know my aversion to the number "666" and the way it has haunted me at times. On Thursday, I was supposed to give a witness talk at a Church group, and I wanted to talk about signs, including 666. While editing my talk on the subway, I decided it was already too long, so I decided to bag the signs and began reading the only other material I had on me--our local school budget. After tiring of reading the annual litany of reasons of why they had to increase spending, I put it aside, but then pulled it back out to see one number--the tax increase called for in the budget. That number should be obvious to you now--6.66%!!!! With that, I put the "signs" part back in my talk and now have a number of new folks in Church who desire bringing Holy Water to our next meeting.
