My daughters father wants me to communicate through his parents and I have done the past 4 years as he gave me ultimatum that otherwise he would not see my daughter and I was desperate for her to have a meaningful relationship with him. The parents are very strange and I first met them back in the 90s when they were high on pills at a rave with their own kids, one of whom was 14 at the time. They are dysfunctional and co-dependent in many ways. I've said that I don't want to communicate through them anymore as they are quite intimidating and manipulative, if I don't do what they want they bad mouth me widely, including they have been into the school before and complained to teachers. So, regardless, they are not backing down and seem to feel they are well within their legal right to have me continue to go through them regardless of the impact on my self esteem / MH (which they say is irrelevant). On top of this the father refuses to have my daughter in school holidays or visit her in her home town, and I feel her travelling over 100 miles every fortnight is too much for her. I've tried to raise the issue several times over the past few years and each time they said no mediation and they just wont see my daughter. The last straw came at Xmas when without mine or my daughters knowledge this was going to happen, her father left her at his sisters on Xmas day for the remaining two nights, taking her siblings back to the family home with him. So I told the grandparents in December that I wont have contact with them and for my daughters father to contact me directly, and they adamantly refuse and are now taking me to court. To add insult to injury they now refuse to have my daughter ever again for Xmas (she loves double presents!) as I've dared to rock the boat. I could go on and on, my self esteem is in shatters after dealing with this family for nearly 7 years, do I stand a chance in court? Having to pull out of buying my first home to fund a case so currently not got legal advice
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lilycaroline12 · 09/04/2019 13:43
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