BeanE, with great respect, I'm not following your reasoning.
Dropping the motion for contempt has nothing to do with the RO. The motion to seal the RO was a separate motion from the RO.
TMH has known all along exactly what was contained in the RO. She had to, she's the respondent and that's the way the legal system in this country works.
Why would KH drop the RO? There's absolutely no reason, especially since that would be tantamount to giving TMH equal rights to custody of baby K.
ITA. This is not TV or the movies. Kaine is not losing his mind, dropping everything, and asking TMH back in his life for a happily ever after.
Kyron is still missing. There can be no happily ever after here. And it's obvious that LE is still focused on TMH. That is not just going to go away anytime soon, not unless some miraculous evidence comes up to clear her and aim at another perp, or Kyron is found and that points to someone else and not her. So Kaine dropping this doesn't mean TMH is innocent, doesn't mean he's saying he's sorry, and doesn't mean he's just going to drop everything else and stay married to her. It doesn't mean that in the least.
Kyron is still missing. Kaine is choosing to focus on that instead of court battles with Terri. I think he knows that the gossip mill info he and Desiree gave out earlier didn't help in any way to find Kyron. So he's not going to proceed to drag it out again just to prove she's in contempt. This is NOT about TERRI. This is about getting the divorce finished as soon as possible and focusing solely on Kyron. This is about letting Terri know that he's done playing games and it's not about her, never about her. He's not giving her any more attention that he needs to.
He probably saw the news reports of her at the five minute hearing with a slew of bodyguards and looking better than ever, definitely NOT like someone suffering in the least. I bet that didn't sit well with him. Here he and Desiree are, suffering every minute of every day, and there's Terri, getting lots of attention and looking like she walked out of a fashion magazine.
Kaine is done. He's not going to let her make this about herself anymore. There's no time for petty crap when Kyron is still missing. And it bet it hurts a thousand times more when he's supposed to start school, but isn't there to do so. He's supposed to be eight, and isn't there to be at his own parties and open gifts with glee with his happy parents watching. How Kaine is able to stand and speak right now is just miraculous to me.
It's simple. It's time for seriousness. It's time for the big guns, hard questions, and it's time to intensify this whole investigation by quitting with the soap opera crap and getting down to business. It's time to refocus on Kyron and get him home. I don't blame Kaine in the least. I think he did right thing here. It's time to move past sexting, batphones, and lying to the real deal. Game time is over. No more focusing on Terri and her bad decisions. It's Kyron's time to be the one focused on. It's Kyron's time to be found and brought home.
Nothing, and I mean nothing, is more important than that. Not even Terri.