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@Little Bitty, I’m fascinated to know the order of play on 5/17. Which came first, the hearing/‘attempt’ or the car crash?
Was MT really driving while Fd played travel-Scrabble with a kid? Doesn’t FD strike you as a has-to-be-in-the-driving-seat sort of guy?
Who was angry that day?
I cannot get my head round MT being so fond of children that she would want 5 extra ankle-snappers in her weekend. Surely it would be (secretly) a relief that she didn’t have to be around on those visitation days? A bonus that she could spend some quality time out and about with her own daughter? For her, a bit of a result at court that day, really?
I’m thinking it was Fd’s mood that dictated things.
IMO he needed MT there on visitations to do the nannying and pick up after the kids. Without a ‘nanny’, he would be exhausted and in a foul mood in fairly short order.
In terms of his longer-term game, what part (if any) did MT play? Why so keen for his kids to forge a relationship with MT and her daughter? MT was expendable (wasn’t she?), so aside from riling Jennifer, what was so important to him about this?