Bradybunchmom's picture

Exes are exes...

For a reason.

This time I mean my own ex. He is being extremely annoying. Ok, not like it is anything new...but he's being a jerk.

He keeps claiming I am not letting him talk to the kids, however the reasons he is not talking to the kids are almost never my fault. Lets see he calls when he knows they are sleeping, he schedules a time for me to have them call him, and then does not pick up, stating his phone was in the car charging...he calls from an almost dead cell phone and then tells me the battery is dying and he has to go before he gets to talk to the kids, calls from same awful cell phone which proceeds to fade in and out and drop calls on the kids, he gets pissed at me and tells me "don't bother to have the kids call later before bed, ill call sometime tomorrow" Or he simply does not call for days at a time, and does not pick up my calls. To top it off he specifically chose not to have voice mail so I can leave a message, or call waiting so I can interupt a call he is on.

All of this is annoying to me, and frustrating to my girls who obviously want to talk to the father and I am constantly having to make up excuses for him, or let them try to call knowing they will get a busy signal or the message that his cell phone is off, because I tried before letting them try. But the worst part is he continues to spew out his lies that I am with holding the kids from him to anyone that will listen including his lawyer.

In fact on his last call to the kids (sunday I might add, last I knew this was thursday and no call has been made or answered since then)he said "thank you for letting me talk to the kids" I went off. "thank you? I am not keeping you from talking to the kids...you call at night when they are asleep, you call from a broken phone, you refuse to pick up...none of that is MY fault" It's hard to say if he truly believes his own lies or if there was someone in the room he was showing off for. He is one of those dad's that are an amazing awe-inspiring dad...so long as someone is around to watch...once the audience is gone hes tossing the kids aside, and leaving them to their own devices.

He is also spreading around...probably even to his lawyer that I just took off one day with the kids, moved out of state and he has no idea where I am. that is such bull shit. He gave me permission to move with the kids...too bad I was too dumb to get it in writing, it is however in an email he wrote me. He's known exactly where I am, and he hasn't filed anything regarding the kids being out of state until almost 3 MONTHS later. I am pretty sure I can beat that in court with my evidence, so i am not too worried about that.

I would love to see the look on his poor lawyers face when he realizes all the things hes been told by my ex and his creepy insane mother (another blog another time) have been complete fabrications.

Anyways my ex has been doing nothing for the last 2 months other than try to screw me over left and right any way he possibly can, and sadly he does have the power to make my short term life hellish...but eventually he will realize by screwing with me instead of settling this out of court its going to cost him a lot of money, the outcome will be pretty much the same whether he paid a lawyer or not...and i will seek child and spousal support instead of waiving it like i had intended.

I am going to attempt to reason with him one more time before I file anything on my own, but reasoning with him is pretty pointless when he has him mom whispering in his ear.

Sia's picture

Hmmmm......

be sure you write down every attempt made to contact him and the outcome. Judges love that! Include the date and time and what recording or anything you got in return. Whether or not they spoke with him and what the outcome was. I did this w/the skids. Worked like a charm w/the judge. Judge said that it was evidence b/c I kept a journal and doubted anyone would just sit around and make up things to put in the journal!

Bradybunchmom's picture

I do have a journal

with all that info inside of it. I also have tried to record some of his calls...but ended up recording a ton of unanswered calls and busysignals with the kids in the background going "daddy pleeease pick up" sad...but not evidence. Although I do have the one on tape where he told me to call at 10 AM, and the phone records to prove I called at 10 and he did not answer or call back til noon...and didnt talk to the kids until 2. (I didn't answer at noon I was driving)

Sia's picture

Good for you!!!!

Lots of people dont realize how valuable a journal can be in this kind of situation! Smiling

Bradybunchmom's picture

Luckily

FH has already gone through this with his ex. And had tons of documents, journals and tapes to prove what a psycho his ex was. He got sole custody, and now has helped me with all this stuff with my ex. I would've been in way over my head but FH has great suggestions, and has had me keeping a journal since the very second we saw EX was going to cause issues.

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