Quote: I Do hope you see this for what it was. You are on the right track with her.
Take care of THE GIRLS. Your wife is on her own.
I think she likely exaggerated the girls issues too. Yes, they missed you but the fact that SHE misses you and SHE can't comfort THEM - ONLY YOU CAN - is the BIGGER issue.
Yes, I read that too. She wouldn't have had to call me if SHE was enough support for them.
Her point with D10 was that she was fine till D15 got whiny. D10 does that sometimes, competes for attention.
As far as D15 being worried about ME falling apart and drinking while mom is away on another massage trip, I don't think that is it at all. I think D15 is worried what mom will do THIS TIME when she comes back. Last time she destroyed the family. D15 never liked her going on these trips because she always came back acting different.
This trip is purely business so I don't expect anything to happen. D15 doesn't really understand that though. She also doesn't know that there was an OM at the last one. OM has never been known to the kids.
W is very worried about this trip since it's part of her 'new business'.
Also got a chance to talk to Counselor for 5 minutes. She agreed with my analysis of D15's fears. She also hinted that W is 'coming out of her fog'. I got a whole bunch of 'appreciation comments' from W and C said that would make sense because the past few days I have not been doing things for her.
C's impression is that it is becoming more apparent that there actually WAS good stuff in our marriage. Who would have thought? Wasn't it 100% bad?
W has called me a couple times today. She has been very melancholy all the time. Something is up with her. I noticed that she has been helping D10 put together a scrapbook with family photos of D10 growing up, and of course they have Mom and Dad in them a lot.
