Well, lying and projecting have won the day in court for my ex and the conspiring children, who, in an effort to gain a more indulgent indolent life with mom, painted me as abusive, when all I wanted was for them to clean their rooms and go to church. They even somehow manipulated the judgement to allow visitation only on alternate Tuesdays, with no time on the weekends at all. This keeps them out of church. Just what they wanted. I am appalled at how willingly the judge let himself be manipulated by the false and misleading testimony.
So I am carving out a new life for myself... Taking a second job in anticipation of a looming child support order. My 5 figure salary will now be docked to supplement my ex's household's $500,000/yr income. These are definitely trying times.
I am grateful for the eagerness with which I was hired on as a lifeguard at my local Y. I am grateful for friends, relatives, and colleagues at my primary job, who have offered words of encouragement throughout this horrible year. I am grateful for the 2 year streak of sickness free living I enjoyed throughout this epidemic. I am also grateful for my good physical conditioning, the payoff for the consistent hard work I put in daily exercising.
My ex girlfriend offered to testify on my behalf in court for this custody battle. I am grateful for that.
In other news, a good friend and gardening partner of mine just died after a long harrowing illness. I will miss him, but am grateful his seemingly interminable suffering is finally at an end.
My ex has joyfully abused and bullied me for years. Perhaps I am too sensitive, but the extramarital affairs and false accusations of abuse do get a man down after a while. It makes co-parenting quite hard. The judge came down on me for not being a good co-parent. He failed to considered the context in which I was trying to co-parent. Some of the blame lies with her, too. It's certainly not all my fault.
More on this later. I shall persist...
No comments:
Post a Comment