“I spoke to the Director of the daycare program and she suggests that we start acclimating Angie to the daycare. It will be easier for her to adjust to the full-time schedule if we start now.”

“Tina I am home all day. I can care for Angie while you’re at work. Why do we need to put her in daycare so soon?”

“I know but aren’t you looking for a job?”

“I have a job Tina. I’m an Art Consultant.”

“Bette I mean a “real” job. You haven’t taken on any new clients since the baby was born. I thought you said you would find something more permanent. Bette, we’re going to incur a lot of expenses with daycare to say nothing of medical expenses, clothes, food and all her other needs. She’s already outgrowing the bassinet. We’ll need to buy furniture for her room. I’ve stopped breastfeeding which means more spent on formula and baby food. We’ve got mortgage payments, maintenance on the pool etc. We can’t afford for both of us to work part-time.”

“Tina I’ll do what I have to do to provide for my family but I am no longer willing to take a job just for the paycheck. I was miserable at the CAC. Helena actually did me a favor getting me fired.”

“Helena didn’t get you fired. She said you did that all on your own.”

“And you believe her? That woman is a monster. She systematically set out to destroy me from day one starting with denying the CAC grant. Then she set her sights on you.”

“You can’t blame Helena for our breakup. We had drifted so far apart long before she even came into the picture.”

“That’s true. I admit we were in a bad place but I don’t think we were beyond repair Tina. Just the fact that we are together right now in our home raising our child is evidence of that. I mean think about how you treated me when you were with her? As bad as things ever got between us we never lost respect for each other, at least not until you got together with her. Bringing her into our social circle, into our family while she was working to destroy me was unconscionable. Do you think I enjoyed watching her gloat while pawing all over you, kissing you, talking about the intimate details of your sex life together in front of me, Kit and our friends? We always respected the intimacy of our relationship. We would have never tolerated that behavior from each other yet you put up with it from her. Tina, you continued to have sex with her while carrying “our” baby practically up to your delivery date.”