Oohdelally

So, back to the whole crazy parents thing...

I think that my parents have delved into new and terrible depths of immaturity. I hate being a go-between.

My mom thinks that my dad is harboring inappropriate feelings for her (she thinks he's still in love). My dad is just aggravated.

My mom thinks that my dad didn't want her to try and contact her son. My dad is one of the first people who thought it might be important for her to do that, because of the emotional baggage that she's carried around for so long as a result of "not knowing".

My dad still thinks that my mom will be able to do things with him as his friend. Poor, poor deluded dad.

Mom thinks that she must completely reject social contact with dad so that he doesn't get mixed messages. Dad thinks that mom's a ninny.

Mom wants dad to do fixit stuff at her house, so she phones me. Dad has no time but will do the stuff anyway from a very bizarre sense of guilt, but only if mom calls him personally. Mom hesitates to call dad because of her resolution (see above), which is silly seeing as she's not calling him so that he can come over to her house.

The scary part: after 3 years of separation, and a subsequent divorce, all of this has happened in the last week.

The up-side: I get to go to the Santana concert tomorrow (it fell within mom's definition of "social contact").