Divorce battles over children are exquisitely horrible. Even when the terms and conditions are spelled out so that a 1st grader could understand them, those terms and conditions fall victim to the vagaries of someone with a grudge and an agenda.
I would post more about this tonight, but all I have in my arsenal is hate and vitriol. And I chose not to go there.
KT was supposed to be with me today. She was not. I am sad, and I am sure that she is sad, too.
My mom and dad used to call the police on the other parent if my brother wasn't at the right house exactly at 8am, when the custody agreement specified the switch was supposed to take place.
ReplyDeleteI'm so sorry, Sarah, and I feel your pain.
I am sorry that you had to experience that. All I can say is that sometimes the people who should know better just, well, they just suck.
ReplyDeleteI would be interested to learn how you and your brother dealt with that, so that I can better help my small people. They are special, neat little folk. I would give them all the tools that I can....
I just caught up on your comment, and I wish I could offer more advice. When we meet we'll have some wine and I can tell you ALL about my experience. There were some fabulous (by that I mean "very bad") twists and turns and I don't really know how we made it through! It helped that my brother and I had each other, that's for sure (my sister was kind of whacky back then, so she had her own set of experiences). There were some very, very, very bad times, but it's really funny for me now, so completely on the other side with very healthy relationships with both parents (who themselves are much healthier), to look back on it.
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