and I'm kind of stoked.

So while browsing FB this afternoon I noticed BM has a new boyfriend. I was intrigued, because the kids are with FH right now and they haven't mentioned anything about it. We don't ask or drill them for information on her, but they do have a tendency to chit chat a lot about what's going on and with her previous boyfriend they talked about casually him a lot when visiting us.

I clicked on his profile which isn't private and there are a couple things that are going to be interesting. First of all, her previous boyfriend had never been married and had no children of his own - new boyfriend not only has a daughter but an ex-wife who it looks like he only split from this year.

Now, I don't want to start a discussion about how long after a divorce should people begin to date, does it matter if it's not finalized on paper yet, blah blah blah because that's a can of worms but I will say that I began seeing FH before their paperwork was finalized. They were living separately long before that, but the filing delay was due to a combination of a slack-ass lawyer as well as her moving circumstances and waiting periods after filing before they'll process it. The relationship was long over when we began seeing each other and she knew and admitted that I had nothing to do with their divorce, but her friends *loved* jumping on and attacking me because FH's paperwork wasn't finished yet. I was called a lot of names and had a lot of cruel messages sent to me.

It's interesting because now her boyfriend likely doesn't have his finalized papers. FH and I know from experience that waiting on a final decree doesn't necessarily mean any foul play, but I have to admit that I would get a lot of enjoyment out of seeing people get on her case about the very thing she spurred her friends on doing to me and FH.

I'm also interested to see how she operates when she has to take a back seat to a child that isn't hers, play the stepmother role and deal with a BM of her own. BM is very opinionated when it comes to parenting and has trouble keeping her mouth shut when talking to people who disagree with her. She's not ballsy enough to say anything aggressive or be straightforward, but I can see her enforcing her own opinions and methods on the kid whether or not her mother agrees or making passive aggressive comments about how inferior the mother's parenting style is.

Either way, it looks like drama from all sides and I'm more interested than I should be in watching it all unfold.

The karma train is roaring down the tracks right about now.