It’s only you guys here who are harping on about him removing the DC, he isn’t trying to remove them from her. They love her, she is their mother, he hasn’t indicated at any time that they are mortal danger or she is neglecting them or that he wanted to take full custody. Her behaviour online is absolutely unacceptable and I am sure she is doing damage to them emotionally by constantly denigrating Ioan to them but if he had concerns about their day to day welfare he would have involved CPS or got an emergency order.
Why does it have to be utterly black and white? She seems to be feeding them, getting them to school sometimes and is meeting their basic needs. Not ideal, she needs to do a lot better than that in order to keep them with her long term especially emotionally and more importantly they seem to WANT to be with her right now.
He never called her an alcoholic and he never called her unstable, he’s never asked for a psych evaluation. She is a not nice person and bitter, spiteful and cruel. He said she had got drunk and hit him while he was there and he was sober. She’s obviously intoxicated online sometimes too. This doesn’t necessarily meet safeguarding thresholds as she’s obviously farming out the kids most of the time to friends houses or their on/off nanny. She’s lazy in bed day and doesn’t work. Spends all day online. Lies about money. Likes fighting with people. She also probably buys the DC whatever they want, lets them stay up late, eat what they want and mess about doing fun girly shit (she is always going on about this). She is utterly pompous and arrogant, I cannot stand her for lots of reasons, not just Ioan she was awful and overbearing well before they broke up.
He was unhappy, he told her he was, they couldn’t make it work, he left, she continues to abuse him via the DC and in public. She also may be in her own way, as much of a loving mother as she is emotionally capable of. Parental alienation is very difficult to prove and hard to fight. It is only people online haranguing him for ‘leaving them behind’ when he hasn’t indicated he intends or needs to remove them from her.
she needs to stop what she’s doing because she is in danger of really ruining her life. She is also harming her DC long term. Their marriage issues should never be put onto the kids the way it has been.
the worst part of this is Alice fighting the concept of something, rather than the reality of it. She could share custody, find work, get time to herself, raise the kids her way on her time. But no, she cannot relinquish control of the situation so she will rather lose it all. Who does that?