Hitting My Stride IIII

[Dawn70]

As usual, bttrfly makes the point I was trying to make yesterday in a far more succinct and eloquent way. XW just kind of assumed you would be sitting there, pining away alone while she went off foot loose and fancy free. She is concerned about how you will react to her bf because she is subconsciously measuring him against you (and as I said yesterday, he will NOT measure up...and not just because he's shorter). But, just as bttrfly said, now XW has to face the reality not only of what she gave up but that someone else has picked it up. The fact that it is a smoking hot doctor who treats you like a king has GOT to make it even that much harder for XW, not that you particularly care, nor should you because she made her bed and now she must lie in it.

Maybe I'm weird or just plain wrong, but I'm not sure why you expected one on one conversation between the XW and the doctor. What would be the point? I didn't have any conversation at all with my XH's new skanky wife when he introduced me. I shook her hand, said hello, and walked away. It was incredibly awkward, but that is a whole other story. I still have not had a conversation with her, but I have only been in her presence one other time and she acted like I wasn't even in the room, which was totally fine with me. I get that you want to have a conversation with the XW's bf, because if I'm not mistaken he lives with her and your girls, so I can see where you would want to put forth an effort to actually know that person, but you and the doc don't live together and while she sees your girls and will likely be their stepmother at some point, she does not have the same relationship to your girls as a non-live in gf as their mom's live in bf does. Does that make sense? Like I said, maybe I'm wrong, but I don't necessarily see anything wrong with the fact that they didn't have a one on one conversation.