Hi, I would really appreciate a bit of perspective on this, and some advice too if possible.
To cut a long story short, my dp has two children from a previous relationship. The break up was pretty acrimonious, but dp and his ex managed a reasonably good relationship until hits ex met a new man. Since them things have gone from bad to worse. Dp is now only allowed access every other weekend and one phone call in a 30 minute time slot on a friday. His ex has not spoken to him for over a year, and any attempts to communicate re: the children's health /education etc go completely ignored. We are currently going through the court to get a contact order.
What really worries me is the comments the children come out with... Things like ' my other daddy wants to punch you' ' my other day says we have to hate you' amd today's ' my other daddy says we have to cry the whole time I'm with you' and ' we have to call it the boring weekend'
I'm really worried that this will have a massive long term effect on the children's emotional well being. It feels to me like they are being emotionally abused, but we feel pretty powerles to address this. My heart breaks for the children and for dp every time something like this happens.
His ex has ignored requests for mediation.
Thanks in advance.