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My soul is tired.......

justwantpeace's picture

I haven't written for awhile, but I am constantly on here. Things have been pretty peaceful up until recently. For those of you who read my stuff before I removed it, due to me not wanting BM reading any of it, some of this will be repetative.

BM is playing the poor me card to the hilt. Keep in mind, she and DH worked together, she was married and cheated on her husband with DH (way before I ever knew him) She didn't tell her husband she was pregnant until she was 7 months. She had a son with her husband, that is how she got him to marry her. DH refused to marry her, but he did try to make everything work. In the end, he left her. We got married later on. She thinks that he is such a monster for leaving her, but honestly, it was a one night stand, to which she brought another girl friend of hers to participate. How could she honestly think DH would love and respect her??? She did the same thing to her husband. She talks about Karma all the time and how I will get mine. She is just pissed because she already got hers and DH and I are so very happily married and her kids LOVE me!!. She is now married to a man she met on the internet, after announcing she was pregnant with his child.( he had already left her one time before) How sad it must be to feel the only way to get a man to stay with you is by getting knocked up!!!! I just want the finger pointing and lies to stop. SHe doesn't realize what she is doing to her children. Of course, it messes with my life too, but I am better equipped to handle it. The kids shouldn't be made to feel the way she makes them feel. She is just a child support whore. If she isn't getting her money, she starts the drama and the games again. Telling the kids they can't have this or that because daddy is a deadbeat and won't give her money. DH has been looking furiously for a job. Not happening. Nothing to be found. It isn't that we don't want to support the kids, it is just impossible right now. I am going to start sending the payments in, from my job, just so we can see the kids this summer. She tells them they can't come see us if they are naughty, she has them calling their step-father dad, and he isn't very nice to them, they don't like him, he throws them around. They so desperatly want to be with us, they beg us, right in front of her. Parts of me feel bad for her, I couldn't imagine my children not loving me or wanting to be with me. But, she is making life miserable for them. The only time she lets them call DH is when they have done something bad, she expects DH to yell at them. Of course he isn't, not the few and far between calls he gets with them. But the thing is, they are such good boys when they are with us. When they are with her, they are getting expelled, they are unruly and disrespectful, we have copies of report cards wherein the teachers are very worried about their anger issues and fighting and torturing small creatures. She refused counseling for them and they are too afraid to go to their counselor to talk, because they are afraid mommy will get mad and not let me see daddy. How sad is that? I am sorry this is so long. Just had to get a few things out. Thanks

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Sia's picture

wondering about you the other day! Poor kids.....have they ever told their school counselor yet? I am sorry to hear that things haven't gotten any better for them! HUGS

northernsiren's picture

A lot of what you said resonates for me, and I'm so sorry to hear someone else goes through this too. Our SD is older, and understands the situation better (it sounds like your boys are young) but BM did all the same her whole life, punishing her by not allowing her to see her dad, things like that. Now she does some of the other things, calling FH when SD does something wrong and demands he yell at her (he won't) Tells SD her dad is a deadbeat but takes that CS check every time.

Like you, she doesn't understand the damage she's doing to SD. SD is great when she's with us, we have zero problems with her, worst thing is I might have to remind her to take her glass to the dishwasher, and she does it with no eye rolling or attitude what so ever. Hell, I have to remind FH of that too. But if you believe BM, she's a liar, a bad person, a troubled kid, she's said all this about her. BM did the same thing about the counseling, refused b/c "SD will just lie to the counselor the way she lies to everyone else to make me look bad". She doesn't care about SD at all except the check she represents that allows BM to sit home and not work and pop out more kids, and SD knows it. It's just so damned sad, I get really worked up about it sometimes, like you, my soul gets tired. I guess I take heart though, knowing that no matter how crappy the situation appears to be, SD is better off for my involvment in her life and her dad's presence in it. It sounds like the same for the boys in your situation, many children out there don't have a justwantpeace and husband, and are left to fend for themselves in a loveless situation.

Perhaps at some point you can get custody, we're moving towards that now, SD is just so unhappy at her moms, and now finding out that her mom hits her, it just has to stop. The sad thing is all the fighting BM is going to put up is all about the paycheck, not at all about the child....

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Albert Einstein