The woman my ex left me for was awful. Truly awful. My children haven't seen her now for 3 years and he's had several live-in girlfriends since her...but this evening, she came up in conversation. We discussed how she had taken the toy of my middle child - 2 at the time, now 7 - and put it in the bin. It was a toy he loved and was carrying around with him everywhere. My ex stood by and watched it happen. Eldest was 5 at the time.
We were discussing it as we were driving along. And when I looked in my mirror, my 7 year old was sobbing. Huge, hot tears, heaving shoulders, total out and out sobbing. I'm pretty sure he won't have any real memory of what happened...but so many years later, she's able to do this to him. I am so upset. So angry. What gave that woman the right to hurt my children in this way? why behave in that way? she was a mother of young children, she had been involved in ripping a family into a million pieces, she had what she wanted. Why do that to an innocent child? I'll never know, will I?