Posts by singin'intherain

I just finished reading your story. I hope things are moving in a positive direction- do you have any updates? Hugs for you and your family!

I admit that I don't know you or your husband, so there are a lot of things I can't understand about this situation. I can only go by what you've posted here. Everything you've written here points unmistakably to the conclusion that your...

Four seems to be the hardest age! Every difficult behavior a kid has seems to be magnified for  while at that age.   I really think this preference for you is just a kid thing, but for the adults in the house, it carries...

Mama, my heart hurts for you so much, tears came to my eyes when I read your update. Your ex is more of a monster than a man, imagine turning his own sons against their mother!   I'm a big fan of saying things plainly,...

My partner doesn't have a family bed with his kids, but they spend a lot of nights there anyway, including many nights when I was there. I have never been kicked out of the bed when the kids wanted to sleep there, just because of what...

I agree that passive agressive moves are unhelpful, no matter how tempting or well deserved. The best thing for her to do is to confront her friend calmly, and tell her that she wants her as a friend, but feels like she can't trust her...

WOW. You will get through this. Everything he's saying is crazy, and you have evidence of that. Write down everything you can remember, if you haven't been documenting his coming and going and trying to move the kids' schools abruptly....

I don't understand- did you call child protective services? Did you talk to his parents? Those are the first things I would do.  

My dss, the same age as your son, looked at porn with one of his friends when no-one else was around the house. We found out about it when we looked at the history for something else. We did not get angry about it, because at his age,...

I might call the police. He's way too big to physically restrain, and if he gets violent and everyone is scared of him, that might be the only way to show how unacceptable the behavior is. Then again, I don't know what the consequences...