It’s 06.25 on 30th December 2007, we’re in our hotel in Spain’s Sierra Nevada mountains, Andalusia (Europe’s 2nd highest range – after The Alps).<\/p>\n
The Lovely S has just got out of bed, thrown on some clothes and gone hunting\/gathering for some water.<\/p>\n
She’s taken two empty bottles to the mountain spring, half a dozen paces from the door to our wing of the hotel.<\/p>\n
I’m unsure why we’re both awake, given the earliness of the hour and the blackness of the day outside.<\/p>\n
But the thirstiness must be related to the very salty Pan de Ajo<\/em> we had as our starter last night.<\/p>\n As I lie here and wait for The Lovely S to return I mull over how the visit to see Daughter is going.<\/p>\n My summary is ‘all in all, pretty well’.<\/p>\n However, there are small signs that my Ex is slowly poisoning my daughter’s mind.<\/p>\n Yesterday Daughter started to say to The Lovely S, ‘Mum and I feel sorry for…’ then changed it to ‘I feel sorry for you S, being married to Dad’.<\/p>\n This is typical of my Ex.<\/p>\n She is a selfish, self-obsessed, poisonous-minded bitch.<\/p>\n That she’s being so blatant about polluting Daughter’s mind with her own hateful, spiteful behaviours and attitudes saddens – but completely unsurprises – me.<\/p>\n There have been other instances, other half-started, repeated conversations that Daughter has quickly realised might be hurtful so has altered or aborted them in mid-flow.<\/p>\n I don’t know what to do about it – I strongly suspect there is nothing I can <\/em>do; no real option but to let my Ex get away with murdering my character behind my back.<\/p>\n The night before last, instead of being in the house when we returned Daughter home, my Ex was in a bar with a group of her friends – all ex-pats.<\/p>\n The fact they were all ex-pats saddens me a little too.<\/p>\n I’m sure they’re a perfectly lovely little coven.<\/p>\n My Ex is showing the selfish, spiteful behaviours that are so typical of her normal demeanour that it makes me uncomfortable just being near her.<\/p>\n I left the bar with the feeling that I’d been viewed, adjudicated and judged wanting – all with no opportunity to bring a case for the defence.<\/p>\n I wonder what half-truths and blatant lies she’s telling them.<\/p>\n But yesterday my Ex went shopping in El Ejido<\/em> to buy a new laptop.<\/p>\n It’s good to know that the \u00a31,000 a month I’m giving her is being so well used.<\/p>\n I wonder if she tells her little coven how generously she’s being supported…<\/p>\n No I don’t. I know the answer to that one straight away.<\/p>\n It’s no wonder that for all of the years that my Ex and I lived together I was so dreadfully unwell.<\/p>\n B<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s 06.25 on 30th December 2007, we’re in our hotel in Spain’s Sierra Nevada mountains, Andalusia (Europe’s 2nd highest range – after The Alps). The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}