The honeymoon is over.
The other day, Daughter decided that she was going to spill more tea. Not a cup, not a bottle, not a quart. Daughter dropped an entire 55-gallon drum of tea. Daughter told me that Son went over to Ned & The Ex's house because recently, The Ex has been saying that she wants to leave Ned. ( They hadn't even hit their 10-month anniversary of being married and she already wants to bail. ) Daughter said that prior to Son coming over, the two of them had a 45-minute phone call about The Ex. The two of them were on the same page; Daughter said, "If she leaves, she has to think of the kids because the kids have gotten to know [Ned] so well that the kids want to call him 'Dad'." ( What I wanted to say was, "This is exactly the same thing that your mom pulled on you and Son with Boyfriend. Your mom didn't give a shit about you and Son back then; why would she give a shit about her kids now?!" Instead, I bit my tongue here and just let her ...