Cat Scratch Fever

The situation with Dane Cook Guy has gotten very complex, very quickly.

He told me not long ago that he considers me to be his girlfriend, as we are exclusively seeing each other and he likes that. Ok, that's fine.

Then he told the ex that the two of us are in a relationship. Um...maybe a bad idea.

Now she's baring teeth and claws and acting in ways she (supposedly) never has; playing mean and vindictive pranks (i.e. starting a rumor that she's getting remarried) and destroying Dane Cook Guy's self-esteem at every turn (i.e. telling him he "sucks as a dad," which he said was the most hurtful thing anyone has ever said or done to him).

I didn't want to get in between the two of them. I wanted to be objective and neutral in how I viewed his ex, because I don't know her at all and it's immoral for me to judge her character on hearsay. But she is making it extremely difficult for me.

I care immensely for this boy. And what she's been doing and saying has clearly been with the intent to injure his pride and ego, and I am not okay with that. Without knowing it was coming (I had no idea he intended to tell her about us), I got caught up in a battle royale with the ex wife.

In his life I am the person who is patient, understanding, who tries to help him accept and cope with this situation, and who tries to help him rebuild his self image. I am the girl that takes him a step forward.

She is the person who is angry and vindictive. She has been trying to tear him up, to destroy him. She has taken advantage of many opportunities to attack him in ways that she knows will hurt him the most. She is the girl who knocks him two steps back.

Well, fine. I will try to defend him as best I can, because he does not deserve this. I didn't want it to be this way, but if I have to, I will fight back.

I am not going to roll over and lose one of the best things that has happened in my life.

It's time for Round 2.