Remains only to be seen if the story turns out as comedy or horror.
Will share this and then will lock "The Story of Fids" in that worn chest in the corner of the IPOAT library and return dutifully to my tatting.
On the last IPOAT thread I mentioned the other one I was seeing after I split with h. He left his wife, asked me to marry him, I lost my heart. Should have had it padded with extra-strong tatting but after years with h it was like floating. It's not that I was more animated, more opinionated but that I could voice it more, was so at ease with myself, stronger, happy. Then he went back to his wife as he said he had to protect his children from the damage a separation would do to them.
I have often wondered if he was right, looking at my 3 now.
Am relieved that ds2 told me he was so upset he left the classroom yesterday, normally he'd have kept that bottled up. He said he heard h telling ds1 that it was his choice, he was old enough to choose if he wanted to live with me or his dad.
Ds2 was upset enough at his brother possibly leaving, but on his own behalf (again I'm relieved he voiced it) he's angry. H won't let him change his surname and told him he had to wait until he was 18.
Dd told me 20 times last night how much she loved me. She does that a lot but now it's more than usual, she sometimes leaves me notes in my briefcase, I leave them for her with her teddies or toys. Last night she added for the first time, "I love daddy too." I cuddled her and said, "Good. We both love you lots too."
One of the reasons H is angry with me is that he hoped I would go back to him when the other one finished it. He sees himself as the injured party although I had ended the marriage and never gave him any hope of a reconciliation. But there's a lot of anger and bitterness because he'd waited the 2 years I was seeing the other one. Explains why he also held on to the house and is now insistent we sell it.