SO bought SD another cell phone about a month ago. (She lost the first one last year)

It has been nothing but drama since then.

I got upset because they were calling 4-5-6x's a night and texting that's not counting the times they were calling in the morning before school and after school before I picked SO up from work. Ridiculous. When I mentioned it to SO, he got mad and said he'll talk to his kids as much as he wants.

Well, I'm not the only one that got sick of it. The phone is now banned from BM's house. But she didn't bother to tell us. This is what happened.

Over the weekend, SD told SO that new SF is getting mad because every time he tells SS to do something or SS gets in trouble he runs to the phone and calls SO (SO never told me this). SS was told to stop doing that because he was going to cause SD to lose her phone privileges at BM's house.

Monday, SO is freaking out because Skids haven't called him...Now this is less than 24hrs after we dropped them off at BM's house. Yesterday, Tuesday, SO asked me to email SD's teacher to have her call him during lunch on the school's phone. Teacher didn't read the email until after school was out.

We get home Tuesday night, SO is in an uproar. He knows SF took the phone and they are just trying to control SO. Then this morning SO contacted BM. Apparently BM told him that she wasn't giving the phone back to SD and he was out the money. I told him to call the cops and report it. She can say the phone doesn't come back to her house but she can't steal it. She concedes and the phone is coming back to our house Friday.

For Two days and this morning on the ride to work, all I hear about is this damn phone. IT"S FOUR DAYS A WEEK. I think he can go 4 days without talking to Skids. It's causing more drama than it's worth.

I understand his point, he want's SD to have a phone because BM works nights. They have only known SF for a year and SO worries. Also, when BM does allow Skids to talk to SO she puts her phone on speaker and listens the entire time.

I can also undertand SF. SS is a huge pain the ass and SS does NOT respect SF. Lies to us about the guy all the time.

I think SO should just suck it up. He sees his kids three days a week. A lot more than some divorced fathers. Is it idea, no. He wants to be a part of their lives every day, but that's what happens when you impregnate a woman you have only known for two months. You don't know she's a shitty mom (even though she already had to kids she was being a shitty mom too) and she's a REALLY shitty EX.

I wish this was the 80's with NO CELL PHONES!!!