i won't get that. it's fine. change. we were talking about change.
planning on getting --
i'm here.
i'm here. i've got a case where they're this close to sequestering the jury but have i answered the goddamn thing?!
you think i didn't get that?
i've been with someone for quite some time, and didn't feel it was appropriate for her to move in too quickly. but after a lot of thought and careful discussion with her -- and the kids i might add -- she moved in last month.
rachel's not half my age.
well, we're not discussing rachel's age either.
jackie, they come to be part of my life. rachel is part of that life.
napalm.
jackie, she was five minutes late --
of course she's responding to it. you think it's easy for any of us? you think it's easy for jackie to watch her kids being looked after by someone who has half the experience she does? of course she's going to be hostile, irrational, and defensive.
thank you mrs. franklin. jackie? this has been very valuable for us. and i'll have a serious talk with annabelle tonight.
i'll call from work. we can have a conference call.
you ask me that counselor's making a mountain out of a molehill.
me too.
fine. but i wanted to take the kids to work with me on wednesday so i'll take wednesday, and you can pick up that thursday, friday after soccer, and saturday before riding.
good. well. take care.
it was a veal stock, i thi.
we have to talk.
i didn't want to spoil our supper.
yeh, it's cheaper.
i just found out i have to go to boston to get a deposition. i might not be back until saturday.
we have the kids this weekend, so.
anyway, i thought. while i'm gone. maybe i'll hire in some help.
just a babysitter -- i mean. you're working.
you don't need to. i don't expect you to handle them yourself.
i trust you of course i do but --
but you're not good at this. not yet. i'm sorry.
they don't hate you --
nobody's telling them to hate you --
it's complicated for jackie. it's complicated for me. you don't have kids -- you don't understand --
no you don't. and i'm not gonna screw with my kids heads right now --
she's a great mother.
now ladies, the secrets to a great pie is the crust. and the secret to a great flaky pie crust comes from less flour and more. what?
that's my girl.
blueberry pie must be topped with vanilla haagan daz and. or creme fraiche. now the secret to a great creme fraiche is.
which also is the secret to.
now don't forget to teach your fathers that. next week. apple brown betty!
get ready. to get really mad.
not yet.
we have the kids. next weekend.
and it's my call. i promised them water-skiing, instead o.
and the evil part is. i am so stoked about the water-skiing. i can't wait.
where are you?
you're where?
jackie, we were taking them water- skiing for the whole weekend!
there you are!
our children.
but he hasn't. he wandered off. i know it's terrifying. i can imagine how you felt when that call came -- but it happens.
jackie, you've made mistakes -- we all make mistakes --
jackie stop. we promised we never go there.
rache, get out of th.
did you see the lawyer?
don't do this.
partly. but partly, you're mad.
you know the kids aren't really in danger. this is about rachel, and you're right, i'm disappointed in her learning curve, and.
i'm afraid she's going to walk.
about me, yeh. like i care about you.
hey. you kicked me out.
this thing with rache. i need this. i don't want to lose her. and i will see to it that the kids don't suffer. help me, huh?
i'd do it for you.
maybe you don't think three years is enough for a person to change but. things are different now jackie. i'm different.
still, please.
getting so beautiful. she looks more like you every day. jackie. i've really given this a lot of thought. a great deal of thought.
i'm gonna marry rachel. i know you don't think much of her but she's a special person -- she really is. and i love her. this is a bridge we never wanted to cross but it's not helping her or the kids if i don't really commit to that.
i didn't think a phone call was appropriate.
i grew up, a little. i'm ready for a life that's built around commitm.
thank you, it's fine.
can we please have less service, here?
it's going to be hard for the kids when i tell them. i'd like you to be there.
it's a huge moment in their life --
we.
we're still their parents for the next hundred years.
you're still going to have to be dealing with me -- with us. we should tell them together.
remember when mommy and daddy got divorced?
well things are going to change again.
annabelle put down that camera.
put down that goddamn camera!
i'll find you wherever you go. my magic boy. i'm still your daddy.  nothing will ever change that.
i think so. what do you think?
it's forever you know.
because i can't hurt anyone like this ever again.
rache, it may take time.
alright my little warriors, remain calm; trust that the ball will find you; remember they're your opponent not your enemies -- not kick major butt!
nice, huh?
she's a charmer, you'll see. in fifty years, the kids'll love her ten percent as much as they love you.
you changed your hair.
it's good. you're not pulling a mid-life crisis on us, are you?
you want us to take him tonight? give you some private time with annab.
yet another spaghetti night.
we're going to win this.
you're not alone in this. you're not alone. jesus, you're not alone, okay?
what happens next?
tell the kids together?
want rache someplace else?
a lot smaller.
annabelle, never say 'nev'
annabelle!
you do not run out on your moth.
well, i think you should tell him you changed your mi.
it's anna sui, you should be doing it.
they're my kids.
she's not gonna die.
hey. remember me?
listen up. that's a pretty big love you're givin' my best girl, pard.
we'll share. like good neighbors.
yeh, well, i'll be up all night on this brief. and then.
i've got a morning plane to boston for the depo. back sunday night.
i made that paella you liked. it's on the stove.
what a great surpri.
is jack okay?
and you freaked. a little.
well, they will be.
why in the world would she t.
i needed some time away.
'. the kids have camp. their friends are here. over there, i'll just be shopping in a language i don't even know. my life, and the kids' lives, aren't here to service your mid-life crisis.' did it go like that?
she called it a fight. the fight.
can we go sit somewhere?
i told her i loved her.
restless.
'. i don't know if i can make it.' that's what i said. but i didn't leave.
that's a pretty ugly thing you just said.
that's not us.
you want me to show you the future. well, i can't darlin'.
we make our lives, one step at a time. we do the best we can. the truth about the future? a promise. is only a hope.
where you goin'?
it was like telling her.
that i didn't love her anymore.
if i could be sure i'd always stay.
she said, 'this thing you call a partnership. the schedules, the chores, all the things we have to work out'
'. for the kids.'
'. that's the life i dreamed of. and it's all i ever wanted it to be.'
that's the kind of person your mom is. she's the best.
i complained a lot, baby. we couldn't travel, we'd lost our privacy, our chance to do things on the spur of the moment. to live for. ourselves. the way we'd started out.
and she said. sounds like you'd be happier. if the kids weren't around.
i said. i love them more than anything. but sometimes.  i do miss what i've lost.
she said she could never feel that way, not for one single second.
she didn't want to be with someone. who could.
you know, this horse smells really bad.
do you know why i never told you all this before?
that's right.
i don't want to be wrong anymore.
i want to say i'm sorry, because i am. and let you hate me. if you have to.
see that feeling? where you feel two different things at once? that's a grown-up thing. it's not a lot of fun.
know why your mom never told you?
she knew that you and her were so. solid. nothing could rock that. but she didn't want to risk.
your hating me.
cos she loves you. she wanted you to have a daddy to love. even if he didn't. completely. deserve it.
you know how much love that is? that she has for you.
there's going to come a moment. when she'll really need you to give that back. and you're just the girl that can do it.
that moment will come. and your heart is going to whisper, 'here it is'
and you'll come through.
here it is.