Thanks you so much. I am sincere in part of the apologizing, but I am being very careful in what I apologize for. I did have a part in it with MIL, but I want to be very careful as to what that part was. I am NOT sorry I didn't give in to all of her demands. I am sorry that I became so hard nosed towards the end and refused to talk to her about it. I was totally spent at that point. I am sorry that I didn't treat certain situations with more empathy. And, I am very, very sorry that the children recently overheard me say something negative about her to a girlfriend that they repeated in her presence. NOTHING excuses me talking negatively about her in front of the children. That was totally unacceptable on my part.
I do think it would be in the children's best interest if mil and I could patch it up so that we could at least be at a kid's birthday party together. But maybe that is a misplaced concern.
I don't know. I'm pressing pause on sending the letter
