You continue to amaze me with your positive, upbeat attitude with everything. Wish you could pass some of that over my way! Was the waterfall gift that was given to your W from you or your son? I could not even imagine sending my H a gift these days, other than possibly a lump of coal! I wish that I had it in me to be nicer to him right now, but I am just too bitter and resentful... My H's B'day is coming up in the beginning of May and IF I do end up sending him a card in the mail it will be a sarcastic one I saw recently at the mall with a VERY old man on the front of the card holding a bowling ball (The man on the card has to be almost 90 yrs.old)... The reason being that I used to tease him when we were together b/c he is a big fan of bowling and I told him once that when he is old and retired, he can always spend his time on a bowling league... He didn't ever really like that comment too much, but I was thinking that in the inside of the card I could write something like: "Well, at least you will know what you might look like in about 40-50 yrs. from now," or "something to look forward to?"... The card in general with the old man will probably piss him off enough without the rude comment anyway... Your generosity to your W at this difficult time in your relationship with her makes me admire you so much more. Hopefully someday I will be able to look past my pain and realize that I just might be better off without him. I found it interesting that your W thought that perhaps you might have been talking down to your son about her parents. I do not know you all that well, but I do know that is something you would never do... It is just not your style and I think that deep down your W knows that about you. Just out of curiousity, was your W always so obsessed with work and making money when you two were together? Did you say that she was crying b/c she was afraid of having to spend more time with your son and not enough time at work? I think that I would cry the other way around! Too much work, not enough time with my child... Gabriel, I just want you to know what an amazing job I think you are doing as a father, a friend to your W, and just in general. I only wish that your W could see what she is missing out on BIG TIME!!!! If I knew her, I just might have to shake her a bit and say, "are you serious? do you know what you are honestly doing here? this man is too good to be true lady!!!"... I mean it, Gabriel... You are the bomb! Take it easy and have a good rest of the week... And, oh yeah... Get some sleep so you don't have to walk around the office with bags under your eyes!!! -Kim
