Hope you're finding a way to keep cool!
Glad the mom figured out she had been used. We put so much into reacting to how the A says he feels. I really got sick of that with my brother. He snorted $65,000 up his nose in less than 6 months and called me on the phone crying about his babies and not knowing where they were. I, of course, started panicking and flew into a tizzy trying to find the kids. Until I put it all together, stopped myself, and broke all contact with him for about 2 years. Just stopped taking his calls. Thought for sure he'd be dead soon enough. He didn't die; he finally got clean. After we all cut him off completely.