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Deciding on child contact after abusive marriage!

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Movingon83 · 13/02/2020 12:23

I’m on a bit of a journey emotionally and physically I guess after leaving my marriage a year ago due to bad emotional abuse (just realising how bad it was now)

Anyway, I stopped my H having unsupervised contact due to a multitude of reasons. It’s still going back and forth between lawyers as to where it will be and when, he deep down does not want to give in to my demands (after all he did nothing wrong...ever) How far do you go with this, how much should you give into. I’m a bit torn because I now know what this man did to me and what he is capable of doing. I would like him to disappear off the end of the earth but that’s my opinion. What is best for ds? He loves his dad, asks where he is and in return his dad loves whatever it is he loves (which is not ds’s best interests) It’s a really tough position to be in just when your trying to navigate through the fog of abuse. He absolutely will cause emotional damage to ds. Will it just be the case of damage control from my end? Me Leaving has put ds in a much better position but there is still danger in what’s ahead.

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Techway · 13/02/2020 19:20

How he behaves to you is seen differently and mostly has no bearing in court.

Physical neglect is something a court will listen to since it can be proven. The approach to take is to say what you feel is needed to safeguard your son so that his dad can see him.

Movingon83 · 13/02/2020 19:24

How he behaves towards me, strangers in the street, fellow employees he has attacked and been fired for. What a Pratt I was for ever thinking making him a father was a good idea. But that’s too late now. I will go down the supervised and see how it goes.

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