It's All My Husband's Fault

  As the years have gone by, The Ex has constantly blamed Husband and/or me for everything that goes wrong.  We've learned to brush our shoulders off, ignore the asinine behavior, and continue on with our lives.  And while I recognize that mental disorders such as narcissism do not discriminate, I am just left astonished by the way that The Ex has started treating Daughter.   Last week, the kids had off of school on Friday.  According to the stipulation we worked out nearly three years ago, this means that The Ex would get placement Thursday night at 5:30pm.  However, Daughter had a basketball game on Friday at 6pm; Husband already stated to The Ex that he did not agree that she would be responsible for bringing Daughter to her games because a)The Ex made Daughter skip practice and b)The Ex brought Daughter to her games after they had already started.   Wednesday evening, Daughter comments that The Ex "doesn't know if she's picking [Daughter] up ...

  The Ex must really be upset about something in her personal life, because she just cannot stop with her constant tirades against both Husband and myself.  Unfortunately, she has her meltdowns with/toward Son and Daughter, who are both left speechless by her outbursts.   Last week at school, Son was being stupid with one of his friends and took it too far.  The school dean called me to let me know, said they gave him two 1-hour detentions, and that Son had apologized profusely to his friend for what he did.  The dean and I laughed, talked about what a great kid Son really is, and how he needs to think things over rather than just acting on them.   This would be all good and fine, except for the fact that Son told The Ex about it.  When he said that  he was told that they needed to call his parents, The Ex asked why she wasn't called and commented, " I'm your mom.  Let me guess: they called [my name]?"  Son said yes, they had c...

  New Years' Day, Husband wakes up to find a text message on his phone from an unknown number: "Good morning! This is [The Ex].  Don't know if you have my new phone number. ( You never gave it to him, why would he have it?  Found out the kids have had this number for 2.5 weeks; thanks for not letting us know how to reach you in case there was an emergency with the kids.  Parenting win! ) Just wanted to let you know that I will be dropping [Daughter] off later today. ( Daughter was supposed to stay through Monday evening because of winter break, but had practice on Monday.  This is the first we heard about Daughter coming home early. ) Before 8pm. ( So, Daughter will be home sometime in the next twelve hours.  Thanks for narrowing that down. ) She says that she can't miss practice. ( Husband literally told her this forty-two days ago.  This is not new information. ) On the schedule it says it's TBD. ( She's referring to the schedule that was handed out...