Hey there, here's my story. In 2005 I married the man of my dreams, we finished up our time in the army in 2006 (2007 for him) and started our lives together in the civilian world. We had our son in 2007. The summer of 2007 his ex wife took the kids out of school 3 weeks early to go visit her family. They stayed with us for 3 months that summer. Around the beginning of 2008 the ex started going nuts. She was married but her hubby was in Afghanistan and she was lonely. She got preggo by one guy and told the kids in the baby isle of walmart, then her and the guy broke up and she miscarried, a week later she has another guy and is moving the kids in with them and they are traveling across state lines everyday to go to school, on the days that they go. In the span of 3 months these kids had 3 schools and 4 homes, then my hubby got custody... FINALLY! Well, we had to deal with the bed wetting (the 6 year old was not potty trained), the vision (11 yr old w/ 20/100 vision) and of course the head lice (No kidding there were hundreds of them about a half inch long the school nurse said it was the worst case of head lice she'd ever seen). We knew what we were dealing with so we recorded conversations between this woman and these children. Pretty soon she starts the trash talking, then she's calling my hubby a child molester... we have more lawyer drama. Christmas she gets the kids and keeps them at her parents which is not allowed because of the fact that her relatives live nearby next door and they have a meth lab, not too mention the smoking and the oxygen in the trailer, well supervised visitations are now put into place. She gets back with her estranged hubby and is now living 20 minutes away from us. We have had CPS called on us, but the best was 6 months ago when she was drunk at our home and hurt the now 13 yr old and assaulted the other 2 as well. 5 months go by and she isn't allowed to see them until she gets help for her drinking, then she starts back with the broken promises and the 13 yr old cuts her self up with a razor blade. Finally i have the hubby get the paper work and walk it through the proper channels so that she can see these kids SUPERVISED. Now she is calling everyday and trying to play "perfect mom". We've had them for over 2 yrs and i feel like these kids are mine. We have had a lot of various circumstances though, my hubby's work left me with the kids for 8 months seeing him on weekends. I would go and pick up the ex so she could see the kids, and all in all my husband and i have gone out of our way but all we get are cold shoulders. For the longest time she didn't pay childsupport but would send HUGE boxes of candy in the mail to the kids (with receipts totaling over $100)we used to joke about how we get our childsupport in twizzlers. Now I just don't know what to do. The woman is up to something and my nerves are shattered. When she is out of the picture everything runs smooth as clockwork, and the kids and i get along great but as soon as she calls or visits it's back to them "hating" me. I understand it's normal but at the same time i'm tired of it. Just because i didn't birth them they aren't mine and i have to watch this horrible woman pop in and out of their lives at her whim and there isn't much we can do about it. Well, that's the short of it...