Lastly, she went from working just two or three nights a week to working five and sometimes six nights a week even when I wasn’t away on a deploymen.... She’d often came home late at night and it seemed like she was always too tired for sex, but on occasion when we did, the sex seemed unanimated and she seemed distant like she was performing a chore, which was just another trigger point for arguments that were becoming more frequent.I didn’t contest the divorce, so everything was finalized fairly. My father, overjoyed at learning about this planned to celebrate my mother's pregnancy with me with his whole family. He wanted to invite hers too, but she said her father had disowned her a long time ago. The night I was born, my father had mysteriously vanished. No one in his family knew what might have happened to him, they blamed my mother for making him disappear because she did not want kids. My mother pleaded with them, telling them she was not responsible and was just as confused as. Well, Tommi was a couple of years past the 'kitten' stage, but Nikki certainly wasn't. Both of them were purring though. Sometimes life is really good. This is one of those times.Nikki reached around me and retrieved the TV remote control. "Just something relaxing, if I can find it, okay?" she said."Okay."She flipped through the channels and found something on Animal Planet about cats, then I chuckled as she talked to Tommi about how all the other cats were energetic and intelligent, not big. Or, to be brutally honest, I guess she let me know that I could have her. I remember well that it was Janaury 8th - Mum and Dad were out, and Bethany had gone back to her Mum's house - and obviously Sally had decided that I had waited long enough. Perhaps she just felt sorry for me.She came into my room in her pyjamas, apologizing that she'd left some of her "bits and pieces" over my radiator. And then she asked whether I would like to give her a hand to "...get her things down" as she was.