@AcrossthePond55 made me laugh!
He was exactly the same yesterday when I picked up DD2, he'd wanted to have her till Monday but his solicitor had said he could have her till Sunday lunchtime.
He's apparently going to give me via solicitors a list of things he wants which are still in the house ... not sure what that is, he left some butter in the fridge? He shot himself in the foot with the accusations of me breaking the law, saying I hadn't offered him any time with DD2, my solicitor was the one who sent the email with dates on. He's also been told by his solicitor to remove himself from the tenancy immediately, I shan't hold my breath.
I have been on tender hocks all day about an email coming through from the solicitor with his demands, which I am sure he's been chasing all day a response to, unfortunately for him solicitors work to their own deadlines and I haven't received anything yet. But still no direct contact, it's heaven.
Getting up this morning and doing the normal school routine without him in the house was heaven, even with 2 teens, an 11 year old and 2 year old. The radio was on, I could call the kids as many times as I liked, make the kids lunch, leave at the time I chose, not sneak around the corner to pick the kids up from the bus stop to drive them in. No fear of reprisals, no saying to the kids, don't tell STBXH I gave you lunch/ a lift/ money and so on. No panic about the lecture and dissection of how wrong I was the way I told DS to get up again, or I should have done this or that, that when I was walking about I was treading too heavily and did I hear how loudly I was breathing. That DD18 wasn't polite enough when she said good morning to him, or that she is after something because she did.
It's liberating!