ok, I’m just gonna throw it out there….. things have been pretty quiet on the “X-front”. If you could see me, you’d notice I’m knocking on every last piece of wood I can find.

As you know by now, I’ve had my attorney set aside Sunday nights for WS2 and I to talk. And you also know by now that THAT doesn’t always work either. If one or two weeks go by, I usually let it go, thinking that I’ll talk to him the following Sunday. But when the THIRD WEEK comes along, that’s where I draw the line. As soon as I don’t get an answer, I shoot off an email to BH asking him to please have WS2 call me since it has been 3 weeks since I last talked to him. If I don’t get a call the following day, I send another email saying that I still hadn’t gotten a phone call and to please have him call me AGAIN. This “spamming” goes on until I get a call. Usually it takes until Wednesday for BH to have WS2 call me. You’d think he’d want to avoid cluttering his inbox with nagging notes from me. You’d think his WIFE would get irritated over it enough that she would just let the phone calls happen on Sunday nights instead. (I’ve learned she has a freaky controlling streak, so I’d be extremely surprised if she didn’t review his emails. I have no proof though, I’m just saying…)

The last time I had to go through this process was on the third missed Sunday, October 18^th. Before that I hadn’t talked to WS2 since the end of September. What the?? I finally talked to him on Wednesday October 21^st. He said the reason he didn’t get the call the previous Sunday was because they had their carpets cleaned and had to unplug everything. I can always tell when his excuses have been told to him. He has a different tone in his voice and talks faster, as if he’s nervous. My poor ba-by! I never get upset with him over it because I feel that his dad and step-mom are behind it. Whatever. If they think they’re getting away with hurting me like this, they’re wrong. It doesn’t bother me like they think. They can waste their lives and use all their energy to “get back at me” all they want. Over time my anti-BS deflective shield has gotten higher and stronger. Yeah, that, and I just don’t care to fight the battles anymore. JUST FOUR YEARS AND EIGHT MONTHS TO GO til he turns 18.

So I talked to WS2 on Wednesday October 21 for about 15 minutes before he was told he needed to go. I called him the Sunday after that even though we had just talked a few days earlier. Just as I had expected. No answer. I talked myself into thinking it was ok though, since I was watching a Yankee game. Then about two minutes later the phone rings and whaddya know, it’s him! We talked about 20 minutes, had a great conversation. But Wow! TWO phone calls in ONE week. What’s a new one.

Maybe the step-mom IS tired of it after all……..

A mother can only hope.