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My ex is controlling my PS4

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Bluemaid3 · 30/01/2021 21:55

Hi, I have a problem with my narcissistic ex. We divorced over 3 years ago, but share care of our son 50/50 by court order. I bought a PS4 for my son's latest birthday. He had to go to his dad the day after for at least a week, so we didn't have time to set it up. I agreed for him to take it to his dad's and have some playtime there instead of waiting. So his dad set it up and bought some games with the gift cards I bought. Since then, the device has been in my house. Fast forward 6 months, and he is trying to use the PS4 to reward or punish our son depending on how he is doing with home-schooling, and control me as well I feel. He has set the parental controls on the PS4 without consulting me (!) to certain hours of the day, so that he csn reduce them if son doesn't complete work at his place. This obviously has an effect on my day. I asked him to give up the controls and give them to my account instead, he refused, or set up a shared email with an account, that we both can access, he refused. He has changed the hours a bit when I asked, so they don't impact our weekend, but I don't like the idea of him controlling a device that I bought and that is only used in my household. To make things worse, we tried deleting his account to see if we could get rid of the restrictions, however, this removed my son's favourite game, which was bought by my ex with my gift cards after the birthday. To get it back, we need his password to reinstall his account, but he is pretending to be too dumb to get his password changed (he can't remember it) and is keeping us waiting until Monday when he is 'going to call Sony' as if that helped! I seriously don't know whether he is this dumb or whether he is just trying to annoy me. In any case, I feel seriously uncomfortable about all this. I don't want him controlling me again, it was hard enough to get out of the marriage and I thought I was safe now!

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Sewsosew · 01/02/2021 18:18

Good for you. What a dick. Tell him to buy his own console and control that.

Bluemaid3 · 03/02/2021 10:57

I have now done the reset, and we've got all the games back and a new account for DS that I control. And it's all working fine. Meanwhile his dad has sent me another incomprehensible email where he dictates stuff - and where he is asking me to bring the PS4 to him, in case DS did not get enough playtime. Cunning (not)! I've told him that's not happening and we don't need his password anymore (because we did the reset that he told me was impossible). I already mentioned it before that he could get his own if he likes using this system. I'm going to send son walking there today because I don't want to see him at the door. He was even trying to dictate when he picks him up, and not asking me when would be good for us!

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unicornsarereal72 · 03/02/2021 12:14

That's a great up date. Keep with clear firm boundaries. He will try to keep control of you don't let him. And I'm sure you have agreed expensive items such as PS4 stay put.

thatwouldbeanecumenicalmatter · 03/02/2021 13:50

Excellent Bluemaid3, glad you got it sorted! What a chancer asking for your DS to bring the actual PS4 console with him to his house - nice try chummmm p Grin

JanuaryChill · 03/02/2021 14:24

Great! And has yr DS been OK with losing his level etc?

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