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what do i do now?

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used2BsoSweet · 14/02/2008 23:58

Ok ladies, this is going to be long but i need to get it out before i explode.

I met my ds1's sperm donor in 1995 the following year we got together and the year after that I fell pg with ds1. Throughout pg now ex would tell me how he wanted ds1 to be called Gess as opposed to Jess which is what he and his ex were going to call their child if she hadn't had an abortion. I refused and asked my mum to pick a name which she did. Also thoughout pg he would tell me how i was fat and ask me if it was any wonder he would rather wank over page 3 girls than have sex with me, along with this came the beatings which progressed from when we argued to hom having a bad day at work, or his footy team losing...basically any reason. I had ds1 in 1998 and for a cple of months things were ok then the beatings started again along with the verbal abuse and him running me down so much i had no confidence. Sad to say the thing that gave me the confidence to get him out was the attention i started getting from another man...who turned out to be married i didn't know for a cple months. So i called police one day and got ex out, ds1 was 22 months old. I did my best for them to have a relationship but ex would do things which he knew would annoy me for instance instead of bringing him home at 5pm it would be 9 and he wouldnt have had any dinner so i was left with a hungry tired grump 2yr old. Eventually i gave ex a choice take care of him properly when he was in his care or stay away and stop being so evil to him. He then started taking ds1 to his mums on visiting day, now at the time ds1 would not eat anything but chicken, he would be returned to my parents or me with a bag of biscuits and a bottle of coke. I had to put a stop to it and told ex he could see ds1 but things had to change, ds1 was then coming up to 3yrs old and told me he didn't like calling him dad as when he was with him he spent more time with his other son than being a dad to him..not in those exact words mind. I tried my best to convince ds1 he should call him dad but he refused nd called him by his name....I did try to stop this. A few months later after always returning distressed ds1 said to me " i don't want to see him again" I tried to convince him he should etc but every sunday he would do something to prevent going even deliberatly wetting himself just before he was due to be collected, throwing his shoes out the window, soaking the clothes i got ready for him in the bath along with many other things. We moved and regardless of what i did or said ds1 refused to see his father, so i started inviting him to our home for the visits, UNTIL the day I cooked a sunday dinner and because i shunned his propositions he threw the dinner down and told ds1 he was going to leave and take his ds1 to the park. I was furious for this, He then began sitting outside ds1's school and telling him he would kill me and take him away...ds1 refused to go to school, sleep, and the bad behaviour started. Now ds1 is 9 1/2 yrs old, the bad behaviour has got to the point that he thinks he is big enough to hit me, screams so loud that last week we had the police in the flat and he told them, i know what i am doing i can stop if i want to but i don't want to yet. I am at my wits end especially as now ds1 has got it into his head that ex is best thing since sliced bread and told me tonight he wants to go and live with him, its as if he has forgotten all he did to him and out it all on me. He tells people i have no respect for my mum she won't let me see my dad, but i don't stop him i have spent the last 4 weeks emailing, phoning and texting him but have no reply. I don;t know where he lives or anything else....I am in tears most of the day and i know this is not good for ds2 4 months. Tonight ds1 has ripped me out of a photo, smashed a garage i bought him when i had ds2, told me he wants to either live with his dad or go into care and all this started because i asked him to empty the dishwasher???????????? what am i to do?

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violetskies · 15/02/2008 00:11

Crikey, that's complicated and so very sad. Have you asked the school/social workers to refer you both for councelling.

Used2Bsosweet · 15/02/2008 00:18

Violet, the school are only just aware of this, i have no social worker and i have taken him to a child psychologist...well a nurse. She has now referred him to a psychaitrist and he told me if i do take him he will tell them i beat him so they take him and ds2 away... i don't even smack him fgs.

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Desiderata · 15/02/2008 00:24

Oh, I'm really sorry, but it's late and I've been working.

I can't read it because there aren't any paragraphs. It's really hard on a screen to follow the text when it's all in a block like this.

But if your boy is aged between 7 and 14, he will want to be with his Dad above you. It's just a developmental thing.

S1ur · 15/02/2008 00:30

My sympathies your ex is a wanker.

Your son is obviously having a tough time, but my feelings are that he'd be finding something else to blame you for if the ex wasn't an issue.

He's challenging you and hitting your weak points.

Help him by being consistant and finding another way to get through this, the school might help. What might happen if you let him have a little control over trying to contact his dad? Let him email and help him do it?

tho tbh I don't think his dad is someone who should be in his life anyway but at this age maybe he needs to see him to realise you're not trying to stop him out of spite iyswim?

Used2Bsosweet · 15/02/2008 00:34

Slur, he has emailed him and his reply was.........

ds1's emailHi Ben,

I asked mummy if I could email you as I would like to see you. I have been nasty to you and everyone else in the past and i now that now. Please can you reply to me.

ex reply

You haven't been nasty to me ever, please don't ever think that, you could never be nasty to me.

I just feel that I have been messed around, where seeing you is concerned, I find it very difficult to get on with my life, find some happiness and a new family when I am forced to deal with the emotions I was being subjected to by seeing you.

Please do not ever think I have not wanted to see you, I think of you every day!!! I just feel the terms of our spending time together unfair.

THINKS OF HIM EVERYDAY??????? THEN WHY NOT ANSWER THE PHONE?

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S1ur · 15/02/2008 00:46

FFS this bloke is a fucking twat.

Grrrrr

Your poor poor son. He has put up with some shit

If I were you I might try and make it seem that I was completely on ds side but at the same time try to help him deal with having a crap dad and move on. so.

Say to ds ok what do you want to do and how can I help you?

Then also, maybe find some new exciting interest or hobby, take him to one of those half term sporty type clubs? Or involve him in planning a party, make it a theme which he can decide on and invite mates from school. Give it an excuse like, the first bit of sun so celebrate the coming of spring.

doesn't have to be expensive.

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