Here Here MI.
Nicki - you are a great person whi is pretty, clever and a agreat mum - and you are feeling shit because he puts you down and doesn't tell you are value your great self worth.
As for parents - holy shit - they are there I think to make us feel bad half the time and believe me all we can learn from them is how to bring our children up properly - whether it be totally different from them (in my case as well as yours) or in other cases the same cause some people have great parents - just as your little princess does.
Nickola - it is his way of controlling you - making you feel sorry for him and bad about yourself - pleased do not fall for it - you are fab and great and a very clever, nice young woman from what I can tell caught in a spiral of abuse trying to find someone who cares for you and as MI said grab the first person that comes along and you let them treat you like shit because when they treat you nice (the small part of the time that they do) it makes up for all the heartache - well from someone who has been there - the little you get from them is not worth the pain and sufferuing they put you through and they should feel greatful for you being in their life not the other way around.
Nicki - please wake up to what this cretin is doing to you - making you feel like shit so when he is a little bit nice you jump on it thinking it is all you deserve when really you deserve it all the time honey - you and Shireen deserve the moon and the stars and all the magic and hapiness that goes with them sometimes things just have to get so bad that something happens and you realise that.
Chin up honey - you can do it I know you can - you don't have a choice really with DD to look after do you!!
Kick him to the curb and get your life on track - ring the CSA and get some proper money from him - he is after all responsible and start livuing your life - if he truly cares for you the new improves independant Nickola may be able to make him fall in love with her but the new improved independant Nickola may also find herself inundated with offers fromlovely young men because she has finally found her inner confidence and is blooming.
Big Big Hugs to you and Shireen. XXX
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(And lucky for him he is not in the country or I would take a detour home and ring his sad scrawny cowardly little neck!! )