I dropped my paperwork off at the solicitors this morning but only the receptionists are in the office. My solicitor works from home - so I am trying to set up a call to go over the details. I am hoping he'll get served next week when the girls are with me. I'd rather he not open it (and react) when he is with the girls.

I am doing as much self care as possible given the current conditions. Socialising is obvs difficult but I manage to get out a few times a week to meet friends (just takes more organising) and there are the (limited) dating adventures. I continue to experiment with different foods (the subscription meals are really working out for me), and after 5 months of daily yoga, my body is effing amazing.

Re the vacations. Everything is up in the air again due to the 14 day quarantine imposed on travellers returning to the UK from Spain. I will make the holidays happen, it will just be more difficult now.

Everything you say is true and, if my H was not so self centered and biased, then he would see this is me carefully trying to move forward on the trajectory he set us on. But he is self centered, and he is biased, so it will only see the impact on him (and the girls). Consciously he will rationalise it so that what I am doing is harming the girls. But unconsciously, it will be because he is scared this comfortable arrangement will end, and also, that with a solicitor between me and him, he won't be able to bully me into submission.


W40 (me), H40
M14, Together 16
D12, D9

BD Oct 17
Moved out Mar 18