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| Sun, 09-12-2004 - 8:20pm |
I'm a 40 year old single mom of a 6 year old son. I left my ex and fled to a shelter for abused women in March of this year. I stayed there for 5 weeks and finally found an apartment in protected housing. I can stay here a year until I find somewhere I'm happy to live.
I have sole custody of my son, and his father (the ex) has visitation every 2nd weekend. He has a no alcohol consumption clause court ordered in our custody agreement because he is an alcoholic.
When my son is with his father I worry continuously. His father always chooses those times to call and verbally abuse me over the telephone. He knows I will answer his calls if Jamie is with him. I have caller ID and normally ignore his phonecalls and messages.
Although this man is a complete lunatic the courts have decided that he gets unsupervised visitation.
My ex also has an 18 year old daughter, my son's half sister who sees me as her mother because she has absolutely no relationship with either of her parents.
I have absolutely no idea how not to get drawn into his drama, between his abusive phonecalls, and his daughter continously crying because her father is abusive to her as well, I feel like I'm standing in his living room. I so want to start over and just get out of his life, but I keep getting sucked back in.
Sorry this got so long, thank you for listening if you got this far
tearz
| Sun, 09-19-2004 - 12:16am |
