Hi @Zoe7 .
No late or early waking by mr, thankfully.
I did get a good amount of work done on my sculpture last night, and it is some finer, finishing details, which is fun.
The kids were good company, and because they have been / are being counselled about how to deal with their dad’s controlling or entitled behaviours, they advise me at times when they can see I have been affected, like I was yesterday.
He called one of them, while we were there ...... who answered their phone hands-free ...... where he then had a gripe to them about me “abandoning” D2 with him in the Home Space, and “taking off”, as if I was off out somewhere unknown, irresponsibly .....
Grrrr .....
And then he said he was now forced to leave D2 home alone for an hour, because he didn’t have time (for a 2min detour) to bring her to the Art Space ahead of his second jog for the day .....
Right. Sure.
I was only a phone call away, like he had just made to one of the kids.
He comes and goes from the Home Space when I am there, leaving D2 with me without caring whether that is convenient for me or not.
The idea of him working around me, or missing his second jog is inconceivable to him.
Stating that he was leaving D2 home alone for the hour was making the kids a part of that (one of them went and stayed with her).
When he came back he took D2 out on an hour’s power walk, which he has now added in on top of his own x2 jogs and daily gym sessions ..... thereby increasing his own exercise quota further ......and I am concerned that he is over-doing it with her. She does need her fitness improved, beyond the days that I walk her home from uni, but if he runs her immunity down she will be more succeptible to viruses ..... and her immunity is lower than other people’s.
Trying to talk to him about it just initiates an aggressive response, which we don’t need, because he can’t tollerste his decisions being questioned, countered, or interfered with, but one of the other baby dragons will join the next power walk, and voice their own concerns if they feel he is over-doing it with D2. Then it starts to become a chorus ..... which he does have to answer to.
Vent over .... He is up now. I might see if I can find a coffee somewhere, and go back to the Art Space. The furniture change around has happened there now, and although it’s stil messy and unorganised, it is feeling more homely 🎉
