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Meryl Streep - Ricki and the Flash

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Synopsis: In the film, Streep plays a singer/guitarist who abandons her family for the stage, but has to return home when her daughter (played by Streep’s real-life daughter Mamie Gummer) is left at the alter.
When she drops in on their lives, however, she finds she’s dealing with anger, resentment and estrangement after checking out of the lives of her kids for so long.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x8PVK6Hky2A

Emancipation Questions.

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SD will be 18 in one month. She dropped out of HS a month ago (she was held back last year and so never finished 11 th grade) She started working at a fast food restaurant, and likes her job. She has held down jobs in the past and likes to work. She lives with BM but recently told DH she desperately wants to move out as soon as possible because it's a "toxic" environment. DH filed a petition to terminate CS two weeks ago, via the E-Services on the PA CS DRS website. We live in CA, they live in NJ and the Court Order originated in Philadelphia, PA, where it has remained.

SD Failing School, is DH responsible to pay BM child support if BM is letting her be held back?

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DH and I are disengaged due to PAS. SD16 treats us like shit. She also treats BM like shit. BM treats us and SD like shit. The dysfunction is quite extensive. BM is an alcoholic pot head with undiagnosed BPD. We are happily estranged from it all. But DH pays CS and will until SD is 18 or out of school, whichever occurs later.

National Medical Support Notice- WTF_I'm livid!!!

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I'm Livid!!! How can the government do this? Has anyone else been hassled by this? DH and I live in CA, the child and BM live in CO. The child support was established in 2007 in PA and hasn't changed. Medical insurance was determined at the time of the order to be covered by BM, with DH is paying his half thru his payments. It's all stated very clearly in the order....

The demon child is back...or.... Is it my bad Karma or hers?

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I updated my Bio on 3/27/12 because I thought I was rid of her once and for all. DH was in agreement with me. No more forcing SD15 to visit because at this point she’s only using us to get to her (adult) siblings and cousins’ (DH brother’s kids). She’s a brat, disrespectful, a liar and offensive. If we had more of a role raising her it would be a different case. The PAS has done too much damage. And four to five visits a year is not enough to have an impact. Each visit becomes another opportunity for her to abuse us.

Tell me this isn't tweeked

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I wouldn't want to be SD14. Not that I want to change the arrangements because I can’t stand the little creature and wouldn’t want to raise her. But her mother is so damn insecure she makes up all kinds of scenarios to guilt SD14 out and tries to undermine her enjoyment of spending time with her Dad. These are just two examples that I know about that happened during her one week visit this holiday (and DH only has her four times a year)

Breaking Tradition

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Well, it hasn’t been a long standing tradition but for the past four years DH and I have hosted an all day open house Thanksgiving for around 20-30 relatives (some sleeping over). That is because DH has been a long distant parent for the last five years and we only have SD14 five times a year, so we take advantage of her fall visits to invite the entire west coast clan to our house so she can spend time with everyone in one fell swoop.

Contempt_Relocating without consent or court order. Should we file?

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Has anyone, (of the Non-Custodial Parent variety) had any success filing a contempt case from State #1, against the (Custodial Parent) in State #2 (where the custody order is filed), who will be in blatant contempt because they plan to relocate to State #3 without consent, court order or agreement. State #3 is 1500 miles further away from the NCP. The dispute is regarding sharing travel expenses to exercise fathers (NC) parenting time and registering the relocation in the new state.

BM and SD14, I pitty them both.

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My extremely PAS’d SD14 just left after having spent a month with us this Summer. It seems as though, after three years of this, the visits are getting easier and less riddled with drama. But at the same time it’s only because we’ve all learned to compartmentalize them into a type of non-existent, temporal state of unconsciousness while we all just wait it out. “Walking on Eggshells” is not only our motto, it’s our survival mode.

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