I'm baaaaack again!

I have been so busy this summer. Whew! Been busy working and busy with drama from my ex-husband concerning our wonderful 17 yr. old daughter. Daughter, her father and wicked step-mom were having problems getting along. LONG story. Apparently the ex and his wife are having marital problems and taking their frustrations out on daughter. Not good. I became aware of the problems and told them that if they all couldn't get along then I would take my daughter for the rest of the summer and let everybody cool down a bit from all the angry rhetoric and all. It was getting real bad for daughter there. They were heaping a lot of verbal and emotional abuse upon daughter. Not good.

One Saturday night about a month ago my daughter calls me and asks if she can come live with me. I said of course she could. I told her I would come for her the next day. She wanted to leave that night and leave a note. I told her that leaving that way was not a good way to do things. I convinced her to stay and tell her father and step-mom face to face that she wanted to leave and come live with me. Sunday afternoon she told them what she was going to do. Well, as you might expect, her announcement didn't go over too well. Her father started going ape shit over that, and step mom stormed out of the house and went for a long drive. I got there not too long after she told them, and ex-husband was spitting bullets and breathing fire. He was yelling at her, then yelling at me, and he was very nasty to both of us.

I helped her get all the stuff that she wanted to bring with her to my place, and he is still breathing fire and hurling hurtful words. What a moron! She told them last week that she was never going back to their house to live. He is still being nasty to her for leaving. Asshole! He has really hurt her big time with his nastiness. She hates talking to him on the phone. He starts out pleasant and then 5 minutes later he is nasty again. He is not a happy person and hasn't been for a long time. He's got issues from the past that keep coming up from time to time. He refuses to go see a therapist to talk out his problems, calls them quacks. Jerk!

I got daughter enrolled at her new school today. She is a senior in high school this year. She's nervous about going to a new school and not really knowing anyone there. It can be a little scary. The people that helped us today were very nice, and the school is a good one in this area. I'm happy about that.

Daughter is now much more relaxed these days, and a hell of a lot happier too. It was a good move for her. No more living with idiots, that's good. Someday maybe her father will wake up and realize how much he really hurt his daughter, or, maybe not. Who knows. I hope he does wake up and soon, before he loses his daughter for good. She has really had it with him and step-mom, and at this point she is not sure she even wants to visit them for an hour or so.

I found a good therapist for her, she needs to talk to someone about all the shit that went on at her dad's house. She's got low self-esteem right now, and is afraid to ask questions for fear that people will get mad. They apparently did get mad if she asked them questions about stuff. It got to the point that she didn't want to go back home after work or after school because she didn't know what kind of a mood they would be in. So she couldn't take it anymore and called me to take her away from that shit. Best move she made this year.

My daughter is now much, much happier. The happiest I've seen her in a long time. Now things are getting under control and I'm back to blogging again. It's good to be back!!