Please help - my current partner has a child with a different woman. I have had no problem with this for the past year and a half we have been together. However, his ex partner the child's mother is a nightmare. I do not feel I am strong enough to put up with it for much longer although I love him dearly and I have never felt like this over someone in my whole life. I am used to idiots and he is so far from! He is lovely as his is family, we are very happy. That is until, his ex partner strikes! Now one week I am the best thing since sliced bread and the next I am (excuse my language) but shit on her shoe! On a bad week, it's constant texts, calls, lies and just general chaos. However, on a good week it's great! She brings me up to the child even though i have been forbidden from meeting them! Ovbiously, I respect her wishes as a child is not a pet but me being forbidden changes weekly too depending on it benefitting her :/ It’s taking a huge toll on my partners mental health as they have been split for some years now and this has only started since he met me. She stalks me and my family. She threatens to stop him seeing his child if she sees or hears something she doesn’t like - this makes him soft. He wants to stand up for himself but we are both at our wits end because there is a young child stuck in the middle of this - this has caused me to have this “let her win” attitude which drives my family and friends mad because she doesn’t deserve that! I contemplate taking myself out of the equation a lot and it’s upsetting for me and him. Does this ever get easier??