Hi Bruce,

Thanks for posting - I truly appreciate your voice of reason. Is it just me, or are there a lot of departures from our forum this week? You are right about my overfocus on her and on the need to distance more from her behavior. The reality is that she does her WAS thing with little thought about me.

I repeated the need for a mutual, equidistant location for transfer, and this has her chewing on her consequence for the RO (inconvenience). Its not about me, but about her inconvenience. Nothing more, nothing less. Yet I felt better about standing up for myself. There will be far less resentment over time if I keep doing that.

I also noticed that my bad moods sometimes have little to do with her. This morn at pickup, I was in a bad mood. But it had more to do with sleep and a business dilemma and little to do with her. Sensing the bad mood, I didn't even interact with her, keep myself focused on S6, and left.

Perhaps we've gone our separate ways.

My gut tells me that she's thinking about us/me. Yet I have to stay focused on myself, and imbed myself in consitent GAL work - for me, and for S6.

Gabriel


God heals the broken-hearted (Psalm 147:3)

Me: 44
W: 40
Separated 8/2011

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