I find it interesting that she is claiming the girls really actively want her to date and find someone, while so much of her nonsense has revolved around how devastated they were Ioan met Bianca, that they were so upset he promised never to have another partner, etc.
Interesting that kids would be absolutely fine about one parent dating again while traumatised by the other doing so. Almost like she’s highlighted an external influence on their minds there that would make it so. She has pretty much confirmed her own alienation of them there.
I was originally of the opinion that although anything can happen in relationships, the only real major issue I could see splitting Ioan and Bianca up would perhaps be if either one was gun shy about commitment, one wanted to progress and marry and the other didn’t. Ioan’s palpable eagerness and joy in proposing to Bianca has settled that. I think they’re very likely to go the distance I really do. Unfortunately Alice’s hamfisted attempts to split them up has done the opposite, and bonded them even more closely. No time with the girls to interfere with their loved up time together, no strain of parenting angry upset kids to highlight any differences in their approach to parenting, she’s afforded them with years of being able to enjoy their company together and bond as a couple. And she has become a common enemy, no longer Ioan’s first wife and the mother of his children but ‘our abuser’ that they are united against.
Soon they will marry and Bianca will be the kids’ stepmother in law whether anyone likes it or not.
Three years on Ioan is getting work, marrying someone he can’t wait to commit to, looks happy healthy and rested while Alice remains a greasy lump in a bed alone whose life consists of sharing old filtered photos for her handful of fans, manufacturing disputes to get attention, facing financial uncertainty with two kids who are quickly ageing into teen years with years of unresolved trauma about to surface. You played a blinder there Alice. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer person.