I survived! It's over.

So my MB records get printed out and will be made into a matter of public record.

Well, so be it.

My attorney read one of my posts that they were making a big stink about. They were making a big stink about the fact that I might take the issue to West Virginia if I lose in Maryland.

I'm sure all posters here have never once in all the times they've posted while feeling emotional, have never once posted about something they say they will do while upset but change their minds later about it.

I'm sure we all mean everything we say word for word as if MB was a contract that "if it is written, then it shall be!"

And yes, my ex is very much keeping up with my posts and it has become quite the bit of reading material for her and her attorneys.

Yes, that's right, attorney's. There is a good cop/bad cop routine going on with the two of them. The man they've hired is the "bad cop", who charges $400 an hour.

Amazingly, she still claims she can't afford to live here where I live, but can pay $400 an hour to Gollum.

Sorry, Chrisner, I'm borrowing your term for your OM sitch, but this guy looks like Gollum.

What's funny is that he doesn't know his own rules for his own state and my attorney and the children's attorney corrected him on the amount of time he's allowed to depose me. He thought he could do it for as long as he wanted but he's limited to 7 hours.

I'm not that experienced in family law, but can tell a monster difference between my exww's lawyer and this man because he's not in the same league as her or my attorney.

When you think of the worst sterotype of attorney's, this is the guy that comes to mind. That's him.

All the lawyer jokes you hear? This guy.

My ex's real attorney, on the other hand, appears to have a rational head on her shoulders. She showed more compassion and understanding and empathy to me today in this deposition after it was over, than my exww has in 2 years. She actually acknowledged my pain indirectly and acknowledged that I've been going through a process.

She acknowledged that I'm in a healing process.

Oh, I'm sure this post will be printed out. I'm happy to spend an hour or two discussing the fact that I don't think much of her shark attorney they hired who is not in the same league as the 3 others in the room there today.

Afterall, my opinion of this guy has nothing to do with my ability to parent and I'm able to post all I want about him.

So share your lawyer jokes. They apply to this guy.

My attorney is awesome. My ex's attorney is that opponent you respect.

My kid's attorney? Don't know what to make of her but I'm confident she has the big picture and can see that I love my kids. I don't know if that will translate in a favorable opinion overall, but we shall see. All I can do is be me.

So my forum where I think out loud (in writing) is being used against me. I'm ebracing this. Perhaps I'll start posting now about how I wish to start snipe hunting regularly and will become the next crime boss of Washington DC.

Oh, never mind, I change my mind. I think I will pursue my dream of being the next Ultimate Fighter.

Oh, never mind, I think I shall take up acting. I hear there is a professional Russian Roulette club strarting up. Perhaps I'll join that.

Oh, and I did contact the local republican party to tell them that I'm a minority who would like to run for office as a republican. Not too many of those and Drudge says that Republicans are recruiting.

I think I'd do well here in Maryland with "Si se puede!".

I think I shall post a new lawyer joke for the day. Insert Darth What's His Name Ambulance Chaser into the stereotype.

Perhaps he can waste another 3 or 4 hours and $1200 about how I post that I don't think much of him as an attorney.

I tell you this much: I would recommend my attorney, my ex's attorney, and my kids attorney to anyone looking for one. This guy?

I'd love to tell you more about how things went, but my attorney probably wouldn't like it. She thinks I did just fine today, though.

Money is an issue, however, and it is running out.

There was one golden moment that happened. They asked me if I ever installed a spy program on her computer.

I answered truthfully. I said, "Of course when I suspected she was cheating I did. She installed one on me too. That's how I found out she went out with 5 different men while I was deployed."

Cachow!

Interestingly enough, he didn't pursue any further questions along these lines.

Then there was this crazy focus on my mental health records.

Amazingly the AF waived something from 10 years ago and allowed me to fly planes for 6 years.

And now? The DoD doesn't seem to have a problem with marital grief counseling and seems ok to have me have a TS clearance while working at the Pentagon and supporting the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Oh, and the kid's attorney said that the courts aren't going to care about what happened before the kids were born.

Cachow!

But while I seemed to have popped their bubbles on some issues, I still have an uneasy feeling overall because of the bias towards women and because my emotions from months ago are being used against me.

So that's my update.

Heartsore was also a special case in that people from this site did a number on the OM in terms of writing the company he worked for.

Larry

I haven't read through the thread yet, but I wonder if all of those posts, filled with anger, sadness, pain, and rage could actually support your position...what better evidence of the damage that was done to you?

I think that would be my tactic...let her glean the worst of the worst from your posts, then point to those very things as the results of a mess that she caused.