My daughter had a supervised contact session with her father this weekend. If you've read my other threads you'll know the circumstances why it's led to supervised interim contact.. He's extremely violent and was abusive to DD also.
The contact supervisor bought DD back to me after her session and was giving me the handover.. She said to me what a lovely relationship she and her father have.. And I felt my heart sink a bit.. But then she said, There's only one reason that is.. And it's because of you. She said she's never seen a child respond positively to their father after so much time apart and it's apparent that her relationship has been maintained through me. I started to speak and the floodgates opened.. And I said I never ever speak badly of him to or in front of her. The contact supervisor then said that she is in amazement as to how strong I am and I should be proud of myself..
Why do I have to be the one that's strong all the time.
I wish I could tell DD her dad is a bad and scary man and hearing his name makes me physically sick.. But I don't and will never want to emotionally manipulate her.
It's so hard knowing they are having positive contact after everything he's done to both of us :(