Thanks guys - I love ya all and I appreciate your worry, concern and advice. \:\) Trust me, I come here expressly looking for that advice as none of my family/friends are able to fully understand exactly what I'm going through right now.

I agree the situation is increasingly unstable & volatile. Right now, I NEED to speak to the lawyer about what I can and cannot do without jeopardizing any legal rights/ claims/ support/custody/visitation issues that I may have. Their office has not received my paperwork yet and until they do, which should be in the next day or two, I can't speak with anyone there. Bullsh!t if you ask me. But, what am I to do? I spent over an hour on the phone - transferring back & forth between offices.

AS for dealing with SO, I have the RO in place if things get out of control. And, as I've said before, I still have a bag packed (it's actually in the back of my truck right now) in the event of a quick flee.

Hah, his shrink just left a VM confirming his appointment for later this week.

So, I'm at 100 responses.....someone give me some ideas for a new title before the impending lockout. Not sure if the DB coaches intended for a person with my problems to come here and vent, lol, because it does go far beyond the, ahem, "normal". But, WTH, I'm here until they throw me out. Perhaps others can look at my sitch and feel a little, tiny bit better about their own.

Anyhow, how 'bout something like "Beauty and the Psychotic"? or "Once Uppon a Time, in a faraway land called Whack-A-Doo City" lmao.

......and, NO, I'm not making light of his mental issues. But, if I can't laugh, what else do I have left????