truelove and beingme, thankyou for your wishes and hope you both have a super tremendous time, this is my fourth christmas alone with my son in all this sad mess but we intend to enjoy it come what may. ex's auntie phoned last night to wish us well and during the conversation she asked me if she could say something, she said I could answere or not, so anyhow she went onto say that even though son never got his presents last year ex as still been out and bought presents for him this year and was there any friends of mine that could drop them off, as I said in some earlier posts I feel at a stage now where I could talk and be a friend to ex, as auntie had mentioned including friends in this mess I told her my feelings and she asked if she could pass it on to ex, I told her that if or when he wanted to contact me I would be willing to speak to him regards our son so long as he calls without beer inside him without any ranting and raving and without expectations that I can work black magic and get son to see him, we will see how it goes and keep expectations at zero, she also confided in me that although she agrees he brought all this mess on himself he as been absolutely heartbroken by it all, so he broke my heart he broke sons heart and he broke his own, is it all so bloody necessary, have fun folks, merry christmas to you all.