A while ago I came across a newspaper article about my ex best friend and its riled me...
Hello,
I've recently come across this article and found it incredibly interesting and full of misinformation.
I met C around 2003, she was already a single mother to her eldest daughter, T. She lived with her parents and was involved in a custody battle with Ts paternal family. If I remember correctly, there was a dispute over the DNA of Tia, with 3 men taking DNA tests. For a brief time C worked for a recruitment agency who supplied staff for the Royal mail in the sorting warehouses. Just as T was due to start school, C met another man and quickly fell pregnant again. This pattern continued as she went on to have another 3 children with this man. They built a life together, he believed they were going to get married and had even adopted T. But she would never allow him to move into the home she had with their 3 children and T. She told me this was because she'd lose her benefits if he moved in.
She was always very careful about him only staying 3 nights a week and having his details registered at a different address. Quite bizarre for a relationship that had been ongoing for more than 10 years, and he had a good job. She was also "pushed up" the council waiting list as her grandfather was quite high up in the council at hemel.
Fast forward to 2013, I was on my backside, heavily pregnant and having fled an abusive relationship, nowhere to go, I contacted my old best friend, C. My elder son was living in hemel with his father and C kindly took me in, was my birthing partner when my child was born and even allowed my eldest son and his father to frequent her home, despite the fact she hated my eldest son's father for many years previously.
I came home (her house) from hospital with my newborn baby and it was lovely. But within weeks I realised something was happening with her and my eldest son's father... I reluctantly gave permission for the relationship, at least I knew my son's stepmother and trusted her.
My newborn child was born October 2013, I moved out of C's property in January 14. My ex and son moved in. In March 14 I was given a property by the council. My eldest son wasn't allowed to visit or have unsupervised access for reasons unbeknown to me. October 2014, finally my eldest son was allowed to visit (he was 10 at this point and had lived with his father for 6 years) 23rd October 2014 he was dropped off for a visit, the following day his father and C dropped his belongings off with no explanation and had no further contact with him. My eldest son is now nearly 19 years old and still has no understanding as to why they did this. He was bullied at school by c's son who is the same age and has suffered significant mental health issues due to this.
C's mother has attempted to spit at me in public and I have police reports of the verbal abuse I suffered from just walking out of my front door and encountering them.
So, the 'wonderful mother' is not so wonderful. She's mentally abused and made homeless her husbands child, she's verbally abused me (witnessed by another friend, who's a police officer) she's cut her husband off from his family. And a son from his father