This is a long story, basically loads of stressful situtaions have happened over the last few months with drama after drama affecting our family.
I have been with my Partner for 8 years. We have a 2 year old DD. He has 2 DD's, aged 10 & 11 who up until now have been living with their Mother and only visiting us at weekends.
Their Mother has been persistently abusing alcohol and putting the Children in danger through her actions, social services & the police have been involved and she has had many, many chances to change her ways. Now we have the Children (again) but this time it is for good, providing my Partner can get residency.
Our finances are stretched as we both work & pay childcare for our Toddler, pay Child Support (even though we have the children) and do not get their Child benefit.
Our home is only 2 small bedrooms and the 2 older children are sleeping on a sofa bed in the living room.
The kids do not deserve this. Their Mother is a nasty piece of work that is for sure, she even assulted my Mother when she had to collect the Children during one of her binges.
I have been taking AD's for my own issues for over a year now and recently I have felt extremley stressed & worried with all the unfairness and uncertainty of our situtaion. There doesn't seem to be any end to it. We are just there for when things go badly. When will social services draw the line and call her unfit? It is affecting my relationship with my own DD to the point where I am seriously questionning my ability. I feel like I am at breaking point and no one gives a shit.