| ABBAKiss |
08-02-2010 03:13 PM |
Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
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Originally Posted by bold_n_brazen
(Post 430375)
Best case scenario is that ABBA wins because McDouche wakes up and becomes the kind of dad the ABBABaby ought to have. But even if he's never going to get there, the ABBABaby should be encouraged to have a relationship with her dad.
I "share" the Brazenette with her dad. She spends every other weekend with him. We also manage to work out holidays pretty amicably. He's her dad and both of them are entitled to the relationship they have.
I will admit that he and I have an unusual relationship, in that we are pretty good friends and trust each other a lot. I'm grateful for the weekends that she is with her dad, because it gives me a chance to catch my breath from constant mommy stuff.
Everyone is right, though. At the end of the day, it's about what's best for the ABBABaby. And honestly, what's best for her is to have a relationship with her daddy. Your job, as her mother, is to facilitate that. It's not fair to make her feel disloyal to you for loving him. She is SUPPOSED to love him. He's also supposed to be worthy of that love, but to the extent that he is not, you're going to need to give him chances to improve.
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I HAVE tried to foster her relationship with McDouche, and at one point he had her about 50% of the time, which caused me to have to have my schedule revolve around his. Despite all my efforts, he and his family CONTINUED to harrass me. He escalated the harassment of me DESPITE me being VERY supportive of his relationship with his daughter. He continually lied to me about who she was with and where she was and continued to meddle in my life. I HAVE NEVER TRIED TO KEEP HIM FROM HIS DAUGHTER. The problem is that I have asked him to be respectful of me, and rather than do this, he harassed me. I am at my wits end. I do not have the money to keep litigating this. He has said, and the court is aware from the emails and texts, that he and his family have "umlimited funds to destroy me." Apparently, my major sin was either 1) demanding McDouche be faithful; 2) filing for child support when it became clear he would not be; 3) moving on with my fiance; or 4) some combination of these things. I seriously do not know what else I can do. I have turned the other cheek. I have "accepted" that he will be in her life. I simply cannot handle the disrespect and he and his family continuing to threaten me. I suspect that they will try to turn my child against me, and why? Because I would no longer cater to their son who was completely disrespectful to me and I kicked him out.
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