Thanks everyone.

No, not a smear campaign, but of course I'm worried about how I look and what people think. It's important that I put that aside.

Moving forward I can see I will care less about what she thinks or says. I am happy that my neighbor told me about their child who was operating from the foregone conclusion that he/she was mistreated, and therefore no matter what the parents did it was wrong.

I have a hard time not reacting to my wife, whether through text or when I encounter her. For a long time all I wanted was to get things right enough so that she'd be close to me.

Thanks everyone. Thanks for seeing some good in me.

I had such a good weekend with the kids. Youngest is sick so we watched angry birds, worked on oldest's old car, did a ton of laundry, went to church, and cooked and cleaned a lot.

I just like hearing them laugh and be kids.