Going straight forward...antlers 6th thread.

[antlers]

Bridge, StupidRomeo, Gardener, and cat03...thanks all for posting. I feel pretty 'beat up' right now. All this horribly bad crap going on, and the relationship I have with my attorney isn't a good one. I've got lots of money invested in the case already. She gets pissed off at me, talks down to me, and doesn't communicate well with me regarding the case...especially via e-mail. It's frustrating and disappointing. I don't understand it; I've even asked her about it via e-mail...no response. I just gotta get through this crap, and try to come out of it as well as I can.

Thank God my son is still with me. I feel like he and I are doing so much better. I'm still learning better ways to do things and handle different situations with him. It warms my heart for him to say "I love you dad" out of the clear blue. He is volatile...but I'm learning not to 'react'. I'm learning to wait until he calms down, and then saying very few words to him about the situation that pissed him off in the first place. People, I'm learning, aren't receptive to reason when they are pissed. So don't bother. The time that he and I have been spending together is overwhelmingly good. God, I've give a testicle if I could go back a few years knowing what I know now. His mom got mad at him because he wanted to stay with me, so she wouldn't give him back his MP3 player, his cell phone, his iPod Touch, his green security blanket (which he's slept with every night since he was a baby), his bathing suit, or his Nike high socks! It's been over 2 weeks and she still hasn't given him his stuff back. I'm seeing some of the sweet boy that was part of his character starting to come back out...he's gotten a lot of hard bark on him since his mother decided to leave. I miss my youngest daughter, and I miss my oldest daughter. The opposing side did not want to settle, they pushed for a trial...so now we have a trial date set for the end of July. My sons grandparents (on his mothers side) have been berating and belittling him on FaceBook for wanting to be with his dad. It bothers him a lot. I can't wait to pick him up after I get off tonight.