Unpleasant

The idiot step mother was mean to me and I cried.
A lot.
More because I am angry than because she hurt my feelings or anything... but there is just no cause for this level of unpleasantness.

The ex-husband is still using the (very very) tired excuse that "they" are changing all of her meds and she is just angry and I should not take it personally... but he did say that I don't have to talk to her again until she stops being so crazy.

So.... never again. Yay!

We'll see how long that holds up. The whole thing stems from a fight over Bean's braces. More specifically, who is going to pay for this second phase of Bean's braces. I called "not it" three years ago when I was the only one paying for phase 1... but apparently (conveniently) I'm the only one who remembers that. When I talked to the ex earlier this week he seemed to be on the same page I was, and now... well... not so much.

So she was hostile enough about it that I hung up on her and then once I calmed down I called the ex again. We had a very calm and rational conversation and talked about what options were there and what should be done and when.

It is not supposed to be this complicated.