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This is background to my situation. My ex-wife left when she was in the latter stages of her pregnancy on good terms. To cut a long story short I was contacted by the Police to attend a voluntary interview. I attended and was informed of a clearly false allegation of the ‘r’ word by my ex. A little later on the first I hear of anything of my son being born was when Child Maintenance contacted me. Basically after a few nightmarish months (due to not surprisingly ‘lack of evidence’) the case was dropped. I asked for a DNA test and once it was confirmed my son was mine I started the process for contact. My ex’s solicitors contacted mine back to say that they would accept access fortnightly. After accepting we heard nothing for ages, until her new solicitors contacted to say no contact will happen at all due to my domestic violence. Again untrue. I began a court case for access and it later became clear she had again falsely accused me of various physical and mental abuses. On the day of the fact-finding hearing she withdrew all allegations even before proceedings began and I was allowed contact supervised. After CAFFCASS were involved snd I finally gained shared care.
I’m the one who felt and still feel mentally abused. I’ve even had to have counselling.
We have to use a communications book and during handover of my son, I having to endure seeing my ex. She’s critical in the communications book in a passive-aggressive way, such as I’m not feeding him properly, giving him too many naps, etc. I’m trying for it to not effect me, as my son is the priority. And I reply back in the most neutral/least conflictive way as possible. How do any of you cope with a similar situation? Any advice would be appreciated.
hi,
i can relate to a lot of this. my ex did runner in late pregnancy stages. but nothing said. all contact cut. learnt of babies birth several hours later and stupid malicious behaviour followed. i made court application for contact. she opted for writing in contact book just to be a pain in the back side. then soon as final hearing over, she ditched it and carried on passing messages onto her brother, who then forwards to me.
theres lot of fixed times in the court order so i just have to turn up to pick up and drop kids. ex doesnt want to see me, so her family does the running around and brings kids out to me. if i want to pass on message for some urgent reason, then i play their retarded game of pass the parcel. if i were you i would ignore the rubbish she writes in the contact book as much as possible.
Hi there
It’s certainly been a roller coaster for you...at least she came clean, even if it was at the 11th hour. I can absolutely understand why you turned to counselling to get you through what happened to you.
There no easy way to deal with a toxic ex, just try and remember that these criticisms are just attempts to control you and your best response to that is to ignore it, as not doing so hands her back a little bit of power. It’s also worth remembering that the communication book won’t be a long term thing and will not be needed as your child gets older.
All the best
Thanks for the feedback. She’s got away with so much it’s unbelievable. Anyhow I need to maintain the great bond I and my son have created in such a short time.
Thank you. It’s perseverance I suppose.
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