My ex husband left me two weeks after our six month old son was born, after being awful to me throughout my pregnancy due to a hidden and extreme addiction problem. He came back briefly three months later, was just as abusive within about three weeks, I told him it was over between us and he disappeared and I haven’t heard from him or his family since.
I feel extremely torn because whilst it makes it easier for me not to have contact with any of them (they have all enabled his addiction issues and have hurt me badly), I feel extremely hurt and angry on my son’s behalf, as it looks like he won’t have any connection with that side of his family at all at this rate. Even his sister, who I thought highly of, has never met my boy.
Should I just try to forget them and move on? Just after he left me they were trying to fight me for visitation (which I have always allowed but supervised) but that fizzled out extremely quickly as they couldn’t be bothered doing supervised contact. I feel like I’m waiting constantly for them to pop up and demand contact, and I just feel so conflicted about how to handle my feelings on the matter.