Reply #104: I might have fought harder if there weren't kids involved

[AlienGirl]

I would feel bad dragging out *his* dirty laundry and having the kids potentially know things that would make them think less of their dad. He apparently had no such compunction and let me know that everything I've ever said or done was fair game. He also was not above using veiled threats of trying to limit my visitation rights if I asked for any alimony. Oh, and he "embellished" quite a bit in the reports he wrote about why I was a bad parent and a possible danger to the kids. AND he had a restraining order out to keep me away from the house and the kids when I weighed 80 lbs, was heavily doped up with morphine, couldn't talk or hear due to swelling from radiation treatments, and couldn't stand up very long without feeling exhausted. His reason? My depression made me a threat to the kids and to him. What was I gonna do, collapse on top of them? This left me a total of 2 days to pack everything from the house we'd lived in for three years so he could move 2000 miles away. He is still mad that I (in my morphine-induced stupor) didn't pack all of *his* sentimental stuff for him, and lost his wedding ring.

Tucker