Got my kids Christmas today finally but my husband kinda ruined it for me. Oh well.

@noturprops 🤣 some of these men I swear

@twice_blessed XOX Real mature of him! Mine continues to tell everyone that we will be back together as long as I don't get pregnant by my now husband, which I am! The domestic violence case should have been a hint to him that I don't want anything to do with him..but his persistence drives me crazy! How is their behavior good in anyway?

@noturprops ikr and I will definitely keep u in my prayers. This stuff is rough. I tried to come to an agreement with my ex and he pretty much told me to f*** myself

@twice_blessed I'll pray for you and you pray for me! I just want what is best for our kiddos, ya know? Florida claims they are a 50/50 state and the parents should come to the agreement alone yet it keeps being a battle because of the challenges of control and manipulation from the ex. What has this world came to? I wish they truly put our kids best interest at heart!

@noturprops I'm sorry. Custody cases are always hard especially when you know its not a good idea for the child to be unsupervised with the other parent and they have the possibility of getting it anyways. I'm not out of the woods yet. His dad is highly pissed and seeking custody again.

@twice_blessed you're an amazing person for doing that! It says alot about how much you love your son to try to still have the dad in the picture. In my situation with my daughter, I didn't realize my bd had a mental disability until he went to get 50% custody of our daughter.. it came up as his income and he's been visiting her at a supervised facility. we go to court with the judge January 3rd. I'm pretty nervous because the lady who monitors him with my daughter says she hasn't seen any indication of his disability and hasnt been adding no contact between us to the files. I think she's maybe being biased. Sad!

@noturprops I completely understand. They were doing anything possible to turn him against me but I didn't realize it until they tried to take him. That court case was closed beginning of the month and I took him for good. I already took full custody of him in march but was trying to let his dad still be in his life. Big mistake

@twice_blessed Wow! Sounds soooooo close to my story. My stepson has to go with his mom 50% of the time but she's teaching him to steal, and other things...it's really hard on him. Breaks my heart.

@noturprops as of beginning of this month I have him permanently. I'm not allowing him back at his dads. He was staying there for school but it wasn't working out. They turned him into a monster in 4 short months. Now we're trying to do damage control

@twice_blessed so you're kinda in the situation I am, just opposite. So you have him full time typically?

@noturprops I guess it wouldn't bother me so much but he's already like a drill sergeant with him all the time. He's not his biologically and he barely speaks to him other than getting on to him. He's honestly way better than he was when I brought him home permanently from the in-laws beginning of this month. He's trying anyways

@twice_blessed I can completely understand that. My step son gets 5 Christmases, 1 with us, 1 with his mom, 1 with my husband's Mom, 1 with his Mom's Mom and 1 with my parents & family. He's been pretty terrible in school, acting like a real butthead and we've been telling him Santa doesn't take too lightly to that behavior. I wanted to make sure he had a good Christmas with us but my husband had me spend way more than I thought I should have and got him a lot more gifts than we previously discussed. Collectively he's a spoiled brat and doesn't appreciate the presents he gets. I thought maybe eliminate the bigger gift, the paw patrol tower that costs a whopping $80 on sale, to help him understand he didn't get that one toy he wanted because of his behavior. My daughter got a good amount but she only gets Christmas with us and my parents. idk I'm a little sore about it myself.

@noturprops I wanted to buy at least one big gift for my son and a few more gifts than he allowed at that. He said "why are you going to spoil a child that's already spoiled?" I mean yes he's a brat at times but he's only 5! Just annoyed me.

@twice_blessed Aww, what did he do?