My story, my progress, my hope

[Tinman]

Journal Entry - Yesterday turned out to be very eventful. Had the above communications with my W which was nice. I was also feeling pretty good because I had finally resolve summer visitation schedule issues with the ex-w. Sure it only cost me about $2k in parenting coordinator and attorney fees to get her to listen to reason but it was finally done. Now I can relax and just live.
So I get to work and I check the court web site to make sure no surprises with the ongoing custody battle. I almost feel out of my chair. She had gone to a different court house and Judge and filed and received and order of protection against me.
I immediately called my attorney and they forwarded the actual documents to me. So yesterday I was able to spend putting a response together so we can go back to court and object to what she filed. It is so obvious she lied too. She requested the OOP based on two situations. First is she made the claim that one day when I picked the kids up at 9am the kids let me into the home and I stole numerous items from her home. She made the statement in the OOP “The children admitted to CPS and Family Preservation Team that they let him into my house and showed him the hard drive to my new alarm system.” Thankfully I received a complete CPS report (all 136 pages concerning her) and on page 112 it addressed this accusation and said “Mother stated that the family preservation team confronted the girls about allowing Father into the home and the girls stated that they did not allow him into the home”. Busted!!
The second claim was that a few months back I met them at the hospital and I caused a scene. So this issue was not true either and yesterday I went to the hospital and spoke to the guy who took care of us and he actually wrote me a very nice letter stating that I was very polite and I did nothing but show concern for his daughter. Busted again.
What I don’t get is how any judge would have signed off on this pile of lies to begin with. CPS has been providing her services for almost 10 months and they recently substantiated abuse charges against her so I am sure she is acting out of desperation. I should also note that she is has MS and is on all kinds of pain meds that she washes down with an nice red wine and her mind and paranoia are out of control. My kids told me that she installed surveillance cameras inside of her house in every room so she can catch who is coming into the home and stealing all of her narcotics.
So I guess in short having to deal with all this craziness without my wonderful W by my side has really hit home how hard dealing with this is and a big part of why she needed to leave. Right now I really don’t blame her and wish I could leave me too
Next week we start the limited assessment process. People have really started stepping up and seeing what kind of person she is. Gives me great hope that on August 16th the judge will rule in favor or my girls and give me sole custody. At that point maybe W will be able to see that life will calm down and we can be a family again and I can get back to being the man she married, but better.