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WH and I just got back from a trip to Maine (he was offered his "dream job", but is the whole family going??? Find out next time on the WAID channel...) with only the new baby. OK, Friday my WH said he had a long talk with OW. He was crying about missing his kids (who are with me in sorta Plan B) and that he wanted to "cool it" and that he wanted to see if he and I could get along. She wasn't too happy about this. She was not pleased about her not going to Maine, said, it's different when all the kids go, because you're seeing the kids, but this time it is to see WAID. I love when she gets a taste of her own medicine!

Anyway, on the 6+ hour trip home today, I knew that he was going to call her the minute we got home, so whatdya know, I was touchy and easily fell into an argument. He was fretting about whether she would evenspeak to him or not, and I'm like, why are you calling her, you are going to confuse her. Oh, escalation of argument ensued to cover every single argument we've ever had in our lives (he started all of that, so hard not to LB when attacked!).

Talk led to reconciliation, which was not his idea, and then to D, which he refuses. You're the one who wants to reconcile blah blah blah blah. OMG, I'm sick of this rollercoaster ride. Please tell me I can get off soon.

We just got home and so he calls her cell, she doesn't answer it, he leaves a message that he was trying to get in touch. He calls her parents house, she's not taking calls. He called the cell phone again, left another message. I'm sitting here in disbelief. This can be good or bad, right? He says, she won't talk to me, isn't that good for you? I didn't respond. He just left to get a pizza (he assures me not to see her) so I'm posting real fast.

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Sorta plan B you say. Hm. If you're worrying about with what phone and how many times he's trying to reach OW, then I reckon that's no kind of plan B. Sorry, I don't know your story...

So he takes you on a trip, then he's worried about OW being angry about it, &c &c. Isn't this what they call "fence sitting"?

Probably you need to better establish where you stand. You're kind of on the fence yourself. You take an opportunity to keep him close, but you react angrily to his uncertainty and launch LBs at him when he does something to pursue the A. And it drives him straight to her. You're either making plan A mistakes by letting fly with all your anger, or you're making plan B mistakes by being there to get angry in the first place.

So challenging, this.

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