Karen, I agree. So does my friend. But the circumstances are that she has no choice. Her STBX is from a very wealthy family, with loads of legal resources to bring to bear and willing to fund a long, drawn-out litigious arms race in the courtroom. The H claims to be "recovering" and has managed to eek out an every-other-weekend parenting schedule.
Given how things have been stacked against her in the courts, she has decided to make the best of a situation she cannot control. What else can she do? She's already blown the equivalence of 90,000 dollars trying to keep her and her child's lives sane, all to little gain. Now her best tact is to make as much peace for her son as she possibly can. The rest she can only leave to God.
