Glam. What is the latest with your situation? Are you divorced yet? As for what you have said regarding XH and your son, I guess I have a little different outlook on things as everyone knows..... When you go 13 years without contact with your child, you are a pathetic person, MLC bullcrap! When you choose to have kids, they are your responsibilty, I don't accept excuses like; "well I had to find myself, I had an MLC, I am afraid you were mad" I call bullcrap on that. I find it remarkable that fathers and mothers choose to wait until their kids reach legal age to have contact with them again once they are beyond their responsibility. Our society has diagnosed every abandonment of obligations with some sort of illness or disorder. The reason why people behave this way is because its tolerated plain and simple. If you are so bad off that you cannot have any interaction with your own children due to some pain or disorder, you need to be in an institution or jail until you "find yourself" or overcome your problems, because you are of no benefit to society.