It was so nice to hear your voices tonight.
You guys sounded so excited.
It filled my heart to hear your joys
It made me so happy, my heart swelled
I can't believe you're nine & seven
It seems like yesterday you were toddlers
So many memories flooded my head.
For a moment it felt like old times.
I miss those times.
I miss reading to you
And hearing the sound of laughter
All the little art projects
And all of the pig piles
Swinging you upside down
Most of all, I miss being dad.
There has been a lot swirling in my head the last few weeks. Coupled with the deep dive I have been doing I have come to realize a few things. There are absolutely times that I gas lit people . The big one specifically is regarding deep conversations that I would have, and then there would be a lack of change from my end. the talk was there but the actions were not, or if they were, they weren't done enough to establish a pattern of progress. That's a big realization for me, first, I'm actually connecting the fact that this is a form of gas lighting. Secondly that sucks to realize that has been going on. There is a few reasons as to why this sucks. The biggest reason is because it caused pain, and hurt in the people that I love. There is no excuse for it. I'm not sure why that has been a reoccurrence, it's certainly not for lack of caring or lack of love.
What really brought this topic up for me today was thinking about the tunnel vision aspect of being stuck in survival/coping mode. The fact that you are only focused on what is in front of you at that very minute in time. Interesting when we look at that in the context of a conversation and gas lighting. I am certainly in the conversations at that moment and then after that conversation, we'll say by the next day, the progress piece is already fallen outside the scope of the tunnel vision because I need to focus on what I have to do to make it to the next part of my day. Interesting cause and effect. Interesting survival mode can set off chain reactions. I'm not sure if that's really the case here, but it makes sense to me, being able to connect the dots. I'm glad that I am aware of that now though so I can work on it.
The other reason why it sucks is because I try to carry myself with integrity and doing the right thing. it's one of those things that I've always prided myself on. I have some faults in my life but I have always tried to do the right thing (whether that turned out to be the case is a different story) and follow my heart with decisions that need to be made. Gas lighting people is NOT the definition of integrity, intentionally meaning to gas light someone or not ( I would never intentionally gas light someone.) This is something that I am aware of now, and will be working on this. The other piece I want to address is the day at basketball when "it's not a big deal" came flying out of my mouth. It is 100% a big deal, kids were involved, and it disregarded your feelings on the matter. This makes me feel like a complete, total ass. I'm terribly sorry :(
This morning was productive at least. I had a meeting with a lawyer regarding the water damage situation that took place last summer. We had a consultation about potential representation and taking the company to court. Due to the claim being upwards of $21,000 I am not able to handle this in small claims court. It's going to cost at least $3000 to get to the mediation table and no guarantees on an offer to settle, and may lead to trial at that point. on top of that if I do win my case he's gonna take another $5000 off the top of what ever is awarded. So I may have to spend $8000-$10000 to pocket $2000-$3000 bucks. Talk about discouraging. He's going to forward all of the information that we talked about and I've got some analyzing and thinking to do on this. I'm not sure how the hell I'm gonna get that paid off. Insurance companies are such a fucking scam. They make a living off of other peoples misfortunes and somehow sleep well at night. Talk about sociopaths....
I paid for a full hour consultation on the matter and had time left over so I decided to get a second opinion about obtaining full custody of my son based on his mother being manipulative, narcissistic, weaponizing and having him live with an abusive alcoholic for a year plus and lying to me about said information. That I have a copy of the PFA against her ex and that I didn't find out about it until the day she called to tell me she just put it against him. He stated that I don't have a case. It would need to be a situation of abuse, neglect, drug related for me to have a shot. He concurred that I could change the custody agreement to have me listed as primary resident, which really would only come into play in the case of child support payments, and that I could get allocated rights to make decisions on medical, educational decisions, etc. in the event of disagreement. He stated that it would really just be a "one up" on her on the paperwork . I've got one other law firm I'm contacting for a third opinion on the matter.
**edit**
Received a phone call from Moncure & Barnicle regarding my inquiry about sole custody. Another confirmation that there is no case for sole custody. They did state that if she gets back with her abusive boyfriend or something to that effect takes place in the future than I can file a motion of change of custody. I discussed Primary Residence and she confirmed that where I'm not currently paying child support it wouldn't have much effect for me with the exception that I could have the right to say I'm primary. It would give me the right to tax returns every year, but based on divorce decree we alternate claiming him. Her recommendation was to wait until he is twelve and and wait for a good time to work it into conversation to see if he verbalizes that he wants to live with me full time, if it's something he wants to do then fill out the paperwork to start the process.
Yesterday was a fairly quiet day at work, and spent some time reading up on broken trust and what it means to be taken for granted. That line "you took me for granted" keep ringing in my head, I can hear the hurt in your voice. This is something that I need to address, and , well, hence me reading up on it so that I can acknowledge what your truth in the matter was. I was gonna write about it in the afternoon, but really didn't know how to start. After work I went for a run, and achieved a new personal best distance wise, almost double what I have been doing. I was both happy and proud of myself because running has always been hard for me. There is a good portion of that run I don't remember because I was in my head again, thinking about the events leading up to the breakup that made you feel like you were not appreciated and broke your trust. It breaks my heart to know that's how I made you feel, because that was never my intent, but I recognize that those events did happen, and I own that. I can absolutely understand why you feel the way that you do, and those feelings are 100% valid. It must have felt like a slap in the face, and I never meant to disregard those feelings, but it happened. The fact that I made you feel alone, when you were scared, the fact that I didn't let you know I was giving her a ride and agreed to watch the boys. That's not fucking fair to you and I'm sorry. an apology is not enough I know. I don't have the opportunity now to repair that.
I knew what I had, I was blessed to have what I had, no man would ever want to lose that kind of partner. If you only knew how much I do appreciate you, and everything that you have done for me or taught me, and are still continuing to teach me as I reflect , research & connect dots. I wish I could repair that hurt. I wish that I could repair the trust. Build it back. In order for me to build that back, firstly I need the chance. Secondly I need to know what is needed by you to prevent those things from happening again, what do you want? what do you need? Because I never want you to feel like that again. I'm doing the work I need to do to be a container, and I need to protect you from that stuff. I recognize that I will probably not get another chance to make this right, I have to accept that. I have to own that my actions put me in this spot.
So, I just got off the phone with Portland Legal regarding Obtaining full custody of my son. She stated that I don't have enough to obtain Sole Parental Custody. I do have a good shot at obtaining primary residence as my son spends a lot of his time here, certainly more time here over the course of a year. She also mentioned that I could also try to get allocated parental rights where I would have final say if My ex wife and I couldn't agree on a decision. She also confirmed that when Orion is 12 he can legally decide if he wants to live with me full time or not. I need to see what else Primary Residence details here in the state of Maine, or if there are any other "perks" so to speak. Lawyer confirmed that she also has ZERO say of who I have at my house unless it's some sort of abuse or drugs taking place. To be continued in part three!
insurance consultation tomorrow with a different lawyer to see if I can take these asshole to court for trying to get out of paying what they should on that flood damage.
After running and cleaning the house last night I decided to take a tub and watch the video for the second part of the Take Control course that I am working on. Pretty interesting segment. She had talked about how living to go from one daily task to the next daily task puts you in a place of just getting by. There is no real enrichment. This could be your daily tasks, the same routines with your kids. You're accomplishing things, but really your only doing what you need to do to get by. There is no real enrichment. After a while problems in your life start to build up, you focus on those problems, and before you know it you are in Coping mode and are exhausted. Once you're exhausted, you're burned out.
She had stated that based on a study from some fancy pants ivy league schools, that adding something enriching, such as a hobby that you love back into your life will aid in giving you enjoyment, giving you more purpose and over time helps to wash away the mundane, gives you more energy and gets you out of coping mode. This is really where I have been. Since before my divorce I was in coping mode, and going through divorce that coping mode was fast tracked to levels I had never been before. Because of the nature of the situation I got stuck there, frozen, and have been in coping mode since.
Since doing the record shop I have noticed that my energy has been coming back, and that I have found like I have purpose outside of my daily tasks. I guess I have more pep in my step. She showed the really great visual of a glass of dirty water, and she slowly poured a pitcher of blue water into the glass and over the course of about 20 seconds or so the blue water that flowed into the cup pushed all the muddy water out. It was a great visualization of how taking a few minutes a day to do something we enjoy (the blue water) can really add fulfillment and happiness to your life (the cup with the muddy water.)
She later got into the kinds of people that we are when it comes to end goals and aspirations. Some folks are dreamers, some folks are path layers. Each person has traits of each, but one of those are our "super power" and those super powers can compliment each other. I went through the workbook exercise and without a question (I already knew this) that I was a path layer. What I did learn is that the path layers are generally organized and know what steps you need to take to achieve a certain goal. The problem is that we can be so focused on each step that we can lose sight of the bigger picture. Tunnel vision. That got me reflecting on the the last few years of my life.
Being frozen in coping mode put me in tunnel vision + being a path layer & losing site of the big picture = Double Tunnel vision.
Let's put this into context of my life. I've been trying to recover from divorce and focus on the family that I had. I knew I wanted them as my family and for us to be a happy unit. However, being in coping mode, I had enough bandwidth to make it through day to day tasks. This put me in tunnel vision where I could only focus on that moment. Now, know my endgame with my family, being a path layer I would have steps to normally get from point A to point B looking at these steps through the first filter of tunnel vision made it so that I couldn't see or really comprehend the next step. This gave me my second filter of tunnel vision which, which added to more burnout and just totally got me lost.
Here's a stupid photo of me sitting down this morning to do my workbook after pacing around the house saying affirmation statements and having an out loud dialogue to my inner child.
This morning I had to swing into a lawyers office in town to drop off paperwork for a insurance claim battle that I have been in the middle of. The lawyers office, ironically was across the street for the court house. I've been wanting to get a copy of the restraining order my ex-wife placed against her new boyfriend at the time so that I could have for my records as my son lives with her half the time. that is something that she hid from me for a year. I didn't find out her boyfriend was abusive until she called me to find out if I could watch my son for the week as she just placed a PFA against her boyfriend. My son was living under the same roof with an abusive alcoholic for a full year before she told me about it. This struck a nerve. There has also been talk in the past of me trying to obtain full custody of my son and it was something I just couldn't deal with at the time as far as bandwidth goes. while I was there I obtained a copy of the custody modification paperwork to review, and am going to consult with a lawyer about my concerns to see if I have the ability, or, have a shot at getting this accomplished. From what I have been reading online it seems like a tall order as she is not physically abusive, or doing drugs, she has a decent job and a place to live.
However, this PFA will probably come in handy. she is manipulative, he also spends a majority of his time at my house. we are split 50/50 on paper but he is here after school mon-wed.. I take care of a majority of his medical stuff, am there to help him with his homework five days a week. The list goes on. I need to create a list and then consult with the lawyer to see what happens from there. I may have to wait until Orion is able to legally express who he wants to live with and then get a modification at that point as well. I'm not sure how this goes. This is uncharted waters for me.
List:
Time: I have my son full time Thursday- Sunday night + Monday-Wednesday 2-2.5hrs after school + vacations (fall/spring/summer) during the week
Homework support 5 days a week
I handle a majority of his doctor appointments and usually pay for them + health insurance
I get his sports schedules organized and most of his other life experiences such as sporting events, concerts, hiking etc.
she's manipulative / narcissist
I believe she weaponizes my son against me and partners as he's been caught standing in corners listening to conversations
Had my son living with an abusive alcoholic for at least a year and didn't tell me until she filed a PFA against him.
has burned bridges with most of her friends and her family
**Update**
phone consultation tomorrow. Let's see what they say.
I feel compelled to write this, because there are some things that I want to say, that, well, it would be crossing a boundary if I got ahold of you to tell you in person. So, I'll write a letter that you'll never see so at least I can get what I need to say off my chest and out in the open. If I don't say what I need to I'm going to hold on to it, and it's going to become bitterness. Better, not bitter.
To Him,
I've known you for six years now. You're someone that I look to for support, and someone that always supported me while at work. When I met you I was in seriously bad shape. Freshly kicked out of my house, starting a new job at the company and barely able to make it through the daily grind. Someone that I could laugh with, and joke with and gave me just enough hope get to the next day. I didn't know it yet, but I was about to meet someone that was about to change my life. Someone that over the next 5 years I would come to love, and know on an extremely intimate level. Someone who quite literally may have saved my life on a few occasions. I didn't know it yet, but you guys had a history. Which ceased to be once I came around.
She was struggling herself, single mother with 2 toddlers, and she had her own traumas and wounds to tend to, and she opened her home to me so that I didn't have to be alone. A place to go to, quite literally stare at the wall for hours on end. Our relationship started to continue on, and I established a relationship with her boys, and an absolutely special bond with one of them, and a relationship with her family. she got to know my family as well (albeit it long distance for the most part.) We held hands and walked each other through the divorce process that each of us were going through and what started out as a relationship of support blossomed into love. We had our ups and downs and our share of struggles. some due to outside forces and some due to me being frozen in coping mode and really only being able to see through the tunnel. I know that I was far from a perfect boyfriend, but What I did and do continue to have is love for her and her two boys. Over those years they became my family, to the point where we all lived together. I was the boys dad, a damn good dad, and she is my person.
My family has been through a lot, and I know that some of that is most certainly on me. However, we have a life time of experiences that we achieved and have been through in that five year period. Yes there has been hurt. We could have handled things better in the moment. I could have done things differently, she could have done some things differently. Point is, both of us have a lot of baggage and this was our first time trying to blend a family together post divorce. We didn't really know what we were doing. It's a learn as you go, in this case, with some things, realizing what we should have done. Hindsight twenty-twenty.
The biggest mistake of my life was letting them walk out of my house. Our relationship was on and off for the next year, well ,you obviously know the story. well.........., not fully. What you haven't learned yet is, is that we created a life, a life out of love. although not planned, she was carrying my child for a short amount of time, she was the size of a pea, and we lost her. She wanted to carry my babies. Even though I was scared, I didn't panic. I told her we would figure it out, I went with her to her ultrasound, held her hand, I made sure that she wasn't alone. If that baby had come around, I would have been a wonderful father to her. This was hard for the both of us. The last few months her and I were still in contact but contact was limited because I knew she was upset about the situation at basketball. The look that she gave me was that I was to go to hell, and not contact them again. I shouldn't have listened, I should have patched things up a few days after that instead of letting it drag out. I did A LOT of thinking and realized that I can't lose her and the boys. I was hoping to patch things up with her so that we could continue our relationship, and fix issues. We could have made this work especially after her and I have realized things that we could have done, that we didn't think about at the time. We no longer have that chance.
I missed the boys terribly and I finally reached out for a real conversation to see how they were doing. We had some really good conversations, her and I, solid heart talks. full of emotions and ugly crying . I thought we were making some progress. That's when I find out that you had come back out of the jungle like a lion licking his lips ready to pounce. I'm sure that you had been waiting five years to do that. What I have a hard time with is that you know our history's. You know we both rebuilt each other up from the ashes of divorce and tended to each others wounds, both of us had already lost family's and you came in when we were in a low and roped her in. I'm sure it didn't cross your mind as to what it would do to me to have my second family fall apart completely.....pretty slimy. Now I have to watch you take my family away from me and of course I need to pretend it's okay every day when we work together.
I know she is looking for some comfort right now. You are her feel good option for the moment, but you're not her soul mate. although you have a history, from how I see it, your history has been playing the part of the person she goes back to when she's in-between relationships. I get where she is coming from with that, cause I would love to have someone like that during these times too. However, I heard all sorts of reasons why you weren't good for her and why she never really dated you to begin with. I did the right thing though, I was the bigger man and reached out to you to let you know that I adore her and she deserves to be happy and that there was no hard feelings. truth is, that is the hardest thing that I have done in a while. That took a lot for me to do that, but it bothers me, clearly.
I'm giving her the space that she needs and I'm working on myself at the moment, mental & physical training, but, under this fire and determination that is raging in me right now I'm still hoping that she is enjoying herself, taking the time to decompress, doing some soul searching to realize that we really have something, we have way to many memories (both good and bad) and a special connection that is not worth throwing away before all options are explored(at least I don't, maybe she sees it that way,) and that I am what the boys need in their life... I hope she realizes these things and comes back......
I realize that you probably felt the same way when I started dating her. It must have been hard to have some new guy come in and date her, I can understand that. The difference between the situations is that you didn't know me then, we weren't friends at that point. But now that I think of it, were we ever really friends, or were you just being nice to me out of respect for her? Either way that was a knife in the back of someone that you, at the very least, had a extremely good working relationship with and say that you have the utmost respect for....
You had your opportunities to win her over a few times before I came into the picture, why didn't you do it then? Why are you doing it now? why did you just wait in the shadows for five years? why am I in a position where I can't try to make my family whole again? You could turn those questions around on me, I realize that, however, I have been trying to do these things for the last five years. Everyone heals at their own pace from a traumatic event like divorce, let's toss in covid isolation, trying to merge 5 people into a house for the first time, passing of many loved ones in my life, my house flooding, losing a child , and almost losing my brother in law last year...... and I was not awake. I am now, I hate that it's taken this for it to get rid of the remaining fog. That wasn't fair to her. But you know what? there's no timeline for that kind of trauma, and I can't lose another family. I can't watch you come in a wisk them away. because of that I can't see the boys because it will tear me apart every time I go to pick them up & drop them off. They already have a undependable father, and now their dad can't see them..... I miss her and my boys terribly. They need to come home. This is their home. Congratulations, you now have the girl, the big promotion and from what you told me last year, are probably buying a house this year. checkmate, you win. Don't worry though, I'll smile and keep giving you that enthusiastic greeting when I see you at work.... Good talk.
I was turned onto the Mel Robbins podcast recently. Excellent content, straight forward and she delivers the information in a simple and easy way to understand. She has recently launched a free part course called taking control, and since I'm on a journey I figured that I would officially start it tonight. I made it through the first video and through the 1st part of the workbook. It did make me think about what was going on over the last few years though, and really put it into perspective as to how fucked up and high stress of a situation that we were info. Covid, isolation, blending 5 people under a new roof without the tools to do so, personal traumas, I was most certainly still in the mental fuckery of divorce and dealing with a crazy ex wife, followed buy last years losses.
It really is no fucking wonder how everything combusted. We always got so caught up in the moment, that I don't think we gave ourselves any grace when it came to the reality of what was going on and exactly how much was going on. I know for me it ties directly into the connections that I made in tonight's segments. What resonated with me tonight was how, clearly, I was stuck in a freeze response due to high levels of stress over the last 5 years. Fight / Flee/ Freeze , a direct stress response to change of all levels and sorts. Because of that I know that I certainly go to a point of low energy because I was constantly overthinking and over analyzing. Basically my brain was operating on survival mode. Because of this I narrowing my focus where my brain and body only dealt with what was in front of me, but was blind to the bigger picture and solutions to things outside of that narrow focus that I was in. I was stuck in coping mode.
It's because of this I missed a lot of cues and and lot of things that my partner needed. Which caused more pain and hurt. Things that are easy to see now that I'm not overloaded with stress. Easy things that I missed. I'm 40 minutes into the first segment and there's the 1st knife to the gut. I know there are going to be plenty more of those over the next few hours of the course. The rest of the course tonight was spent talking about the "gas gauge" for all different things in your life, and how they relate to your energy. Going through all of the gauges on paper really made it apparent that I have been stuck in coping mode. Next course we will start getting into the things that we can do to break those cycles. This whole situation has me so motivated to make progress on myself because I can't go through something like this again. It's just too painful. I have included the link to the Site incase you are interested in checking it out. I think it'll help a lot of people, and it's truly free. Not just a teaser lesson and then hitting a pay wall.
Just received good news from my manager that I have officially made Salary and have received a pretty decent pay bump. Super fucking excited. It's been a lot of work to get here. Seems like not to long ago that I was working at my current company through a temp agency for a miserable hourly rate. At least some prayers have been answered. Now for the others......
"This is was a really bizarre experience and am trying to figure out what it was. My Ex and I have recently broken up. We had very deep connection with each other, and still do(she is an empath and I have empathic traits.)
A few weeks ago (before I knew she was seeing someone) I was sitting in my chair in the living room and I had this really quick image in my head. It was my Ex’s body from the shoulders up and The face she was making was the same face she would make when we were making love, this was followed by me having this incredible surge/ gasp (almost like when you wake up abruptly from a nightmare.) However, I wasn’t asleep. it was a few weeks later that I found out that she started seeing a guy around this time that she has a history with. this has lead me to start doing some research, but am still questioning what was going on, I’m interested on your take.
what was this experience? is she still connected to me and I was picking up her having sex with her new partner? was she thinking of me while having sex with her new partner? am I just crazy? Did my brain just make this up? day dreaming?"
The last two days have been so emotionally exhausting. A huge chunk of the day yesterday was debriefing everything that has been going on, just to find out that you're already dating someone. I was so angry when I found out. fuming. I went from being sad about the situation to steaming. It took all I had to compose myself to force out the simple phrase "I'm happy that you're happy." I was just 100% gutted.
I didn't sleep last night. I tossed and turned, replayed scenarios in my head. What would have happened if I had done this, what would have happened if we had done that. Why didn't we go to therapy. We put the kids in, but didn't go ourselves. why didn't we start therapy before you guys moved in so that we could have had a smooth transition. The hours ticked by. Anger came back, followed by sadness and burning, cramping, nausea in my stomach. Knowing that you were coming over to get your stuff today, I thought about getting up, around 3:30am or so to start bringing all your stuff out of the attic into the garage. I decided not to, and to try to get some sleep. more tossing and turning took place.
I finally did get out of bed around 6:45. I made coffee, and started taking your stuff out of the attic. I was so sad. That pain in my stomach was still there. My plan was to sit out in the backyard while you loaded your car. I decided to move to the stairs, with no intention of talking to you because the anger started coming back to me. I was able to shake off the anger and composed myself and made my way to you while you were loading the car. I'm glad I did because, because after the awkward small talk I got to debrief with you again. Another emotional breakdown ensued. It was good to chat with you, and I was proud of myself for asking if you settled for this guy or not. I know there is a history, but that's the feeling that I have about it. I don't know what hurts more, losing you as a lover or losing my best friend. 6 months is going to be a long time to see if we can be friends. God I hope you tell me you made a mistake. I need to focus on fixing myself and really doing the hard work. It was so apparent today that the connection is still there. we were so open and raw with each other.
Once you left I decided to head out of the house. we took sausage down to the ocean for a bit and threw rocks into the ocean. tried to enjoy the weather and have some fun with the little guy. Played basketball for a bit. I had the urge to message your new lover as I have a good working relationship with him and told him that you deserve to be happy and no hard feelings. it was so hard for me to do that, but i felt like it needed to be done.
I had a big conversation tonight with Orion. that Daddy cannot live alone for the next 30 years and how incredibly lonely I am up here, and isolated , and I was so happy to have a family and how much I loved the five of us and because of his mothers interference I lost my family. I told him that it's important that when you love someone to never let anyone take that away from you, ever. I told him at some point down the road, hopefully I will have a family again in this house and he needs to be okay with sharing me, and that he will never be forgotten, and that he doesn't have to fight for time with dad, there is enough of me to go around.
For the few views per entry that I get on this blog, I would absolutely love to think that you are one of the ones who consistently read. I want you back, I should have told you to come home that day...... we should have gone to family therapy, even if we started just a few months ago. We owed it to ourselves. I feel like we each worked on ourselves over the last 5 years, but we didn't bring in the outside tools to help us reinforce our relationship from the forces of evil. That deep soul level connection that we have deserved it and that's not fair to US that we didn't explore that path at the very least.
Tonight was a good first session with the therapist. I think that it's going to go well. It was typical intake stuff, but I was able to get a good read on her and I felt comfortable talking to her. I'm looking forward to to getting into the meat and potatoes of everything I need to work through. It'll be a journey It was nice to get some stuff off my chest tonight anyway. I'm not sure where we are going to start, but both her and I certainly have our work cut out for us. My first homework assignment is to be self aware of where I am feeing these feelings and report back to her. Other than that it was a pretty low key day. I was able to go out jogging again tonight. For now it's gelato, Eldamar, and a hot tub.
I have my first therapy appointment today, I hope it goes well and that I feel comfortable with the person. I'm looking forward to starting this, I have a lot that I need to work through. Not only with this recent breakup, but just a lot of loss and trauma to deal with. Connections are being made and the truth will be revealed. The post that I wrote the other day was really eye opening to me regarding all of the things that happened just last year. That's not even factoring in childhood stuff. I'm so twisted over the ending of this relationship right now. I feel like it has me questioning everything about myself. Some days are better than others. I had that churning burning ball in my stomach all day yesterday. I'm out of tears, I'm just left with that dull constant ache. It had me researching attachment styles the last day and a half to try to figure this out. I try to stay busy to keep my mind occupied. You always come back. when I do get you out of my head, you creep back again, and then I find myself doing push-ups to get you back out of my head. I broke down the other night and invited you over, I know I shouldn't have. I knew you weren't going to come over. Is it wrong of me to admit I was hoping you would, so you could take your frustrations out on me during a much needed release?
