For those of you folks who have been following my posts, you know that I totally disengaged from SD17 a few weeks ago. Her mission in life is to wreck my marriage to DW, so that SD can have DW to herself. SD17 has tried every trick in the book to create tension and drive a wedge between me and DW. However, now that I have disengaged, the number of fights between me and DW has tailed off significantly (prior to disengagement, most of fights centered around SD).

As we are fighting less, there is less tension in the house. SD is not happy about this! Her whole "game plan" was centered around causing trouble, and drawing me into fights with DW. But now that we are not fighting so much, SD's plan has gone off the rails. She is moping around the house, acting all depressed. DW stated that is surprised by this, since I am no longer interacting with SD, which she presumed was the source of SD's unhappiness. DW now fully understands what SD is trying to do, and DW is gradually starting to back me a little more.

Hooray for disengagement!