My fiancé and I are still having a complete nightmare of a time with his very, very bitter ex wife who continues to deny him access to his children on a whim. For example, he hasn’t seen his kids for 3 weeks now because we’re going on holiday and she found out about it, which is exactly what happened last year when we went on holiday. I understand that they were married for a long time and that she wont get over everything that has happened quickly but why must she involve their children constantly? It’s starting to take it’s toll on them and they are becoming 2 very mixed up little girls, she’s so bitter she can’t see what she’s doing to them. She has actually said she wants him to just disappear from their lives so she can get on with hers. He instructed a lawyer to try and get regular access over a year and a half ago, and despite constant correspondence and a visit to court it seems to have made no difference at all. Now it seems even if he does succeed in getting a contact order saying she must let him see his children there is absolutely no way of enforcing it, she can still refuse to let him see them when she feels like it, so what the f*ck is the point?!
It is really getting me down at the moment and the way the UK system is skewed in favour of mothers, Dad’s just don’t get a look in and I never realised until I witnessed it first hand.
Sorry about the rant, just needed to vent.
― smee (smee), Monday, 24 November 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)