Well actually yesterday was going to be her treat.
The schedule was just maddening. Everything was great when we were together, but for the most part, Tuesday was the only day we were kid free and she didn't work. But shit always comes up with her, too busy of a life. The friends mom died, daughter asked her to come over, this or that. Ending up being 3 hours a week isn't much of dating. The last couple weeks she had a day trip planned for Valentines day, leave in the morning. Then Monday night her daughter (who's f'n 20 and she still acts like she's 6) asks her over for brunch yesterday. So she thought it was no big deal to push a day trip from leaving in the morning to leaving at fucking noon. And she refuses to tell her kids she's dating because they're still butthurt over their dad leaving a fucking YEAR ago. And if her kids are as awesome as she said, her daughter never would have asked her to rearrange plans on Valentines day. But she doesn't say shit, she just moves our plans around which turned into argument about how plans are made to be brokena nd should always be fluid and if you if she has the ability to have all of us in one day, why shouldn't she?
For a therapist, she's incredibly naïve when it comes to things like....Hey, if I make a commitment, I should fucking stick to it. Plans are meant to be broken is an excuse to act selfishly or not be reliable. And she can't see my viewpoint. And she always turns back to, "I will NEVER say no to my kids because you never know when you'll see them again". Oh FFS, she's an adult and you spent the day with her last week on our only actual day together, so that shit don't fly with me. So I'm the selfish bad guy for expecting people to keep their word when they say shit like "firm" or "definitely" when plans are made.
Neither one of us handled it well. And it sucks, she's the first one I could have seen myself with long term, but that one flaw is a pretty big fucking flaw. I'm pretty rigid when it comes to plans, disrespect, etc. The smart, rational thing would have been to suck it up and deal with the nonsense until she's ready to tell her kids, then it wouldn't be an issue. But what my brain knows is rational and what comes out of my mouth are not always the same thing.