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Seeing my kids just every other weekend

272 replies

Happylittlebluebird · 27/04/2021 17:35

I have decided to drop protracted court preceedings as it is getting us nowhere.

Any other mums out there that just see their kids every other weekend? My boys are 11 and 13.

I am heartbroken but it's the price you pay for leaving an abusive narcissist.

Please be kind as obviously I'm feeling devastated right now as it is.

OP posts:
Checkingout811 · 28/04/2021 19:06

Who is uncomfortable?

Checkingout811 · 28/04/2021 19:06

And no, fwiw, he was never physically abusive

Happylittlebluebird · 28/04/2021 19:07

@Checkingout811 We live together!! Grin

OP posts:
EarringsandLipstick · 28/04/2021 19:07

I've reported now. I've asked if it could be left stand but closed for further posts, rather than deleted. When it's deleted, OP gets to pop up again with a new name & start this all over again.

I don't know how much, if any, of OP's story is true.

But it's unfair for people who've genuinely been in abusive situations / experienced parental alienation to have to read this

It's also become very sick, watching OP toy with everyone in this fashion.

Happylittlebluebird · 28/04/2021 19:07

@Checkingout811 I'm delighted the courts saw it xx

OP posts:
Checkingout811 · 28/04/2021 19:08

@Happylittlebluebird so he does all the childcare during the day whilst working full time as you stated on your previous thread?

FeatheredHope · 28/04/2021 19:09

I agree completely @EarringsandLipstick. Thank you.

Checkingout811 · 28/04/2021 19:09

@EarringsandLipstick she is delighting in it. I think the children are better off with their DF if this is the behaviour of their mother. I would assume MH issues?

SeaTurtles92 · 28/04/2021 19:09

OP I think you think you're high and mighty. You're really not.

Maybe if you put so much time and effort into fighting for your kids as you do arguing on threads acting all smug and making countless threads on the same thing, you might actually have your kids more than EOW.

Go and get help. I mean that in a nice way.

Happylittlebluebird · 28/04/2021 19:10

@Checkingout811 Her grandma.

OP posts:
EarringsandLipstick · 28/04/2021 19:11

I would assume MH issues?

I used to think so @Checkingout811 but I really am unsure. I think OP enjoys seeing how much she can get posters to invest and react, before changing tack & coming at it from a different angle, as she has this evening.

FeatheredHope · 28/04/2021 19:12

Maybe if you put so much time and effort into fighting for your kids as you do arguing on threads acting all smug and making countless threads on the same thing, you might actually have your kids more than EOW

I’m so glad someone has finally had the balls to say what we’ve all been thinking.

Happylittlebluebird · 28/04/2021 19:14

@FeatheredHope Go through the family courts and get back to me x

OP posts:
UhtredRagnarson · 28/04/2021 19:14

[quote Happylittlebluebird]@UhtredRagnarson To see if MN would delete it? And their reason for doing so.[/quote]
Oh so on those grounds then. Look at that. You were able to answer your own question.

Happylittlebluebird · 28/04/2021 19:15

@UhtredRagnarson Let's see.

OP posts:
FeatheredHope · 28/04/2021 19:16

Go through the family courts and get back to me

I have. As I already shared with you.
But you don’t listen to anyone or anything do you?

UhtredRagnarson · 28/04/2021 19:17

I said on the last thread that this is exactly what the Exh is protecting his children from. Look at what the OP does here. Can you imagine what her children have to go through every time they do something she doesn’t like?

EarringsandLipstick · 28/04/2021 19:19

@UhtredRagnarson

I said on the last thread that this is exactly what the Exh is protecting his children from. Look at what the OP does here. Can you imagine what her children have to go through every time they do something she doesn’t like?
I know 😔

I prefer to think this is all / largely invented, as I really hate thinking of two young boys in this situation.

Lostmyway86 · 28/04/2021 19:20

I just wrote a long post of advice and understanding as my DH is going through the family court with similar for his children. But now I've read all the comments, I don't know what to think!

Bluntness100 · 28/04/2021 19:24

Folks this is all a bit pointless.

Op, whatever your story is causing you to post, I hope you get the help in real life you need.

EarringsandLipstick · 28/04/2021 19:24

@Lostmyway86

I just wrote a long post of advice and understanding as my DH is going through the family court with similar for his children. But now I've read all the comments, I don't know what to think!
That's the problem.

There's no doubt there are some truly sad, difficult cases around issues like this.

OP posting in bad faith, designed to draw posters in, affects others who genuinely do need support.

A casual browser would also think we were an unsympathetic shower of bitches. And be put off MN.

But those of us who are veterans of more than one of OP's thread can be fairly confident we are being led up the garden path, in some shape or form.

Happylittlebluebird · 28/04/2021 19:24

So here is the email from my incredibly clever and supportive barrister....

Hello *

Absolutely not. On the contrary, they will know that it was you who first brought the matter to Court because you wanted the issues to be addressed. They have expressed their views and you are simply acting on their wishes as conveyed to her and set out in the report. The order can reflect that your preference was for the arrangements to remain the same, that you dearly love your children but that you are accepting their wishes and feelings as shared.
I know this is very difficult for you and I imagine there must be many things running through your mind, but rest assured we will ensure that the boys will never be left with the impression that you are abandoning them by deciding not to take it to a final hearing.

I hope that helps.

OP posts:
Pebbledashery · 28/04/2021 19:25

I have to say this is one of the most toxic threads I've seen for quite some time.

EarringsandLipstick · 28/04/2021 19:26

@Bluntness100

Folks this is all a bit pointless.

Op, whatever your story is causing you to post, I hope you get the help in real life you need.

I agree Bluntness.

I'm continuing to post, not in response to OP, but in the hope this thread stands, and it's clear in future what OP is up to, and it can stop her nonsense next time.

I'm also not sure 'help' as such is needed, as I've my doubts that OP is anything other than malicious here.

GlitchStitch · 28/04/2021 19:29

Didn't you have a long thread about how you were going to have to put your daughter up for adoption at one point? If this is real your extreme responses and chaotic life suggest that maybe their Dad is the best option.

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