I think this is where I belong

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Cheers (do y'all use that as a greeting as well as a good bye?)

JBF, what if seeing your W was the best thing for your D, even it it caused some nightmares? It's hard to know. I hope your C gives you a good answer. When I ask mine about my kids, it seems to come down to if there are no real problems, don't do anything. Maybe I need a better C

A new job sounds great. A new anything sounds pretty good. I feel kind of cheated because I started a new job just before my W left. I've had a hard time giving this new job the attention it deserves. This could be the right job for me, and I hope I don't mess it up. Good luck to you. I hope that if it is the job you want that you get it.

Are the laws in the UK on divorce and custody a lot different than in the US? Here, and it varies by state, I have good grounds to keep the kids since my wife 'abandoned' us. Your W has left too, so that might give you a stronger legal position. And then again, you may never have to find out.

I've always admired the Salvation Army without knowing anything about them. Living in the land of the fundamentalist right wing Christian (and I've known some great people who fit in that category - but I think we have a lot of the judgmental, closed minded (unchristian?) type in the US too) I thought they might lean in that direction. I'm sure I used the wrong word when I said sect. Denomination is better. I think I've been told that the Army is an offshoot of the Methodist? True? Or are they separate all together?

I forgot to say that I even like some Hip Hop (Rap is a little harder for me to appreciate).

Today will be a good day.

Quick story. I was in London during that freakish heat wave. I brought the whole family over. The flat had no air conditioning, of course. The kids still think of England as a hot, humid place. The day the family flew home - I stayed on a few more days for work - the heat wave broke and the weather was brilliant. Oddly enough, the other time I was in London was during one of the coldest winters in history. When my W left London and I stayed on a few days for work, the weather changed and was glorious. Think London has something against my W? Were the gods trying to tell me something?