Joe

Just barely surviving here. In a weird way I’m actually kinda happy that Susan is having an affair with Joe. I’ve no idea who Joe is and I don’t care. Hopefully she’ll leave and run off with him leaving me in peace. And if she doesn’t it’s ok, because her attention is there and not on me which gives me a break from her.

However, the following is a rather unpleasant side effect of it.

Emma has seen some of Susan and Joe’s love(bombing) WhatsApp messages. It’s possible that this is further contributing to the alienation and hostility between them. I did not show them to Emma. Susan had headphones in doom-scrolling her phone, Emma was in the back seat of the car reading all her messages out loud and messing about. Because of the headphones, Susan was unaware of what Emma was doing. Emma stopped reading mid-sentence and was silent. I glanced over at her phone, Susan had switched to the chat with Joe.

Susan is unaware that this happened.