Well hi there!
Pardon my disappearance. Work has gotten progressively more demanding and the life of a single mom doesn’t give much spare time. I’m happy to say Dick is still out on his own. He has no job and no income but has managed to find a girlfriend with steady work. He is getting food stamps and is pursuing disability. Though I’m better off without him the fact he’s now trying to file for disability is a kick in the teeth as he wouldn’t do it for our family. He’s blown up the car I gave him and lives 30 minutes away so he doesn’t see the boys as often as they would like.
My work has been a struggle. My co workers go from catty to sweet minute by minute. There are several government agencies looking into our industry and as a result we are changing all the time. Our dealer customers are more and more demanding every day and will use anything to get what they want. I want out but I’m not sure how to make this kind of money with these hours and flexibility so I’m feeling stuck. As the sole provider even a small pay cut could be very challenging.
My sweet Tom can’t wait to be here to help me. He is trapped in his home town. His ex-wife (not current wife) has decided to ask the courts to re-look at their child support agreement. He has never missed an agreed upon payment and has gone above and beyond to provide for his daughter however the child support agreement has not been set up through the court system and years ago they worked out a verbal change. She is reneging and it’s turning out to be costly. He does have very low cost legal representation. His attorney is his current wife’s cousin. These two things have him laying low and waiting before making a move.
He is coming to visit in a week and a half. Next week is my youngest sons 4th birthday and in June my parents, the kids and I are taking a family trip to Disney land! There’s a lot to look forward to and plan for. I’m excited and exhausted. However I miss posting. Only time will tell if I can get back into the grove of my little life documentation project.
Missed you guys!
I hope I can work on catching up on all the blogs I’ve missed. Hope you are well out there in the world.


(Un)reasonable doubt……
19 SepThis feels weird to write but it’s how I feel. My love, this wonderful man who loves me dearly and is going to move 700 miles to date me I am feeling unsure about our future. It might just be due to the turmoil I’m going through. I look forward to the fun we will have, the experiences we will share and the life we can build together with both of us working hard. Something in me is loosing the enthusiasm I once had. It might just be my own lack of confidence. Things have changed, some days I’m not sure if I’m wanting to talk. Some times I feel pulled away from cleaning and days where I’m with my family and I don’t talk to him I get the feeling he is getting upset because I’m not making time for him. However that might just be in my head from how I was trained to be with Dick.
He is starting to make little moves in his own life towards leaving his wife, his state and his job. Cleaning out old things, paying off debt, having talks with his wife. It is making it all more real. We talked that we would date. That I should date other men and he should date women. His dating he has put into the less important category because he has been single as an adult he has dated and he says he knows what he wants and that is me. Where I have no real experience, I need to squelch any what if’s and see if there is a better match. I worry what if there is or worse what if there is a superficial match and I don’t see the douche in them. Above all what if he changes his whole life to be with me and it doesn’t happen.
Tom went on a romantic get away with his wife. It was more of an attempt to see if there was a spark as they both have talked about feeling like good friends not husband and wife. He said that they did do a bit of kissing at the start but there was virtually nothing else. She didn’t try to cuddle up to him, hold his hand or initiate anything sexual. It was her time of the month but there are other ways to be intimate with your husband and he said there was not so much as a hand in his lap. He called me most of the trip. Telling me how much he loves me and misses me. I was cleaning one night with my Dad and was not near my phone and he called maybe three times and by the last call he sounded pretty disappointed that I had not answered. I am even feeling that he’s needing much more attention than he has ever required even outside of this trip. That is probably normal and the effects of the risks and changes he is taking.
I wonder if all this stems from me starting a relationship at the wrong time. He could really be what I’ve thought for the last year or so…..the best thing that ever happened to me. I still wonder if my attachment came from having such a horrible situation. Or maybe that I’m afraid of loneliness and not finding anyone else. We are very different but a lot of the same. With that said he is very different from Dick. There will be no crazy tweekers, no douchey idiots that we hang out with and party, no doing coke together and he probably will not get along with a lot of the acquaintances that I probably need to get rid of anyway. Those things are kinda scary.
These feelings come and go. In fact since I started writing this Monday they have gone away again and I’m super excited to see him and eventually date him and possibly live the rest of my life with him. I hope this is all normal and not just a away that my subconscious is warning me. Only time will tell. After I get a new life in order with Dick as a co-parent instead of someone I have to worry about every interaction I think things will start to level off.