Focused on Me and My Son 2

[Sherman333]

Wonka...

Unscathed??! Open your eyes, bud.

The point is to lessen the impact going forward. I fully recognize where things are at.

Have you recorded her rants?

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His lawyer actually advised him to record any interactions with her when she is hostile. This may be something you need to do to build evidence

I have recordings and they'll play a role in the future. There is a plan, it just hasn't been documented here. I'll post about it as it happens.

Today I picked up the police report and I had some info come in from the foster care agency that covers the incident where she was verbally abusive to one of our kids in public (CPS was called). I dropped these off with the lawyer.

So last night, she picked up S7 and took him to her apartment. Same arrangement we had when she was in the house (she gets him Monday/Tuesday). It's all verbal and there's no signed agreement.

He said she had him do homework, gave him a hot-pocket for dinner, and he watched some TV. He did say she didn't talk to him much. The one thing he said that he brought up with her is the new alarm system I put in last week. He's been a little fixated on it and it's odd to me that 7 year old would bring this up as a topic to talk about. Unless he feels safer with it and/or it's his way of warning mom?

On thing she did that surprised me is that she had him home by 8:00 p.m. She normally can't hit a time like that... ever. When she got to the house she didn't say hardly anything. I gave her the mail she had and she gave me some baskets she used to move. She was very curt. So I did make sure to tell her to have a "nice night" in a polite way and closed the door.

Another odd thing... she got a new TV the OM funded (she doesn't have the money at the moment according to her). It's trash day at my house and she brought to box over to throw it away at my place.

One thing that I did have (sorta a 180) is our garage has been the staging area for a lot of home projects (dryawall, saws, etc.) I cleaned it out enough that I can park my truck in it. Mainly to protect it from her doing something (her brother strongly advised it). The garage is something she always complained about, but she'd dump stuff there all the time and then blame me for it being messy.