I think I am cracking up and burned out

[windeindoiel]

I feel for you too. It makes me sad when people don't consider the effect their actions have on their children... or any children for that matter. The letter idea might be a good one. It's a good way to get out everything you want to say without the other person having the opportunity to fight you about it. A laywer might be handy too, but I don't know much about law. Anyways good luck with it all and hang in there, it's hard but you'll find the strength to get though it.

 

[greeneyedlady]

hmmmmmmm after the phone call I got last night I am figuring that numb nuts talked to a lawyer and the lawyer told him that the kids were too old for him to push around, not that I talked to him but he was all sugar with my 14 year old.
I wouldn't mind except that he hasn't really tried to be a consistant part of their lives poping in now and then and expecting them to be grateful for a tidbit of his attention that is what burns me up.

 

[Calico Goat]

I'm in the other OTHER shoe here, I'm the kid between the parents...my mother's the one bearing the brunt of it...I won't dip into details on the exact nature of the, ah, descision to part, but let's just say that any vacation where the police are involved makes you never want to go to Hatteras again.

And I think, that from all the stories, when kids are involved, MOST of the time it's the woman that has the worst of it. She's had to raise the kids because it's her 'job' to do so, and with my mother, although we have no idea just where on Earth dad is right now, she still has to deal with the fact that he has the majority of the money, which means as I finish my last year of high school next year, we're probably going to have to move to a smaller place. I sympathize with you, I'm behind you 100% because I understand all the work you're going through (THREE kids?!), and in my humble opinion I think you should tell this guy to go to hell.