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There are other changes as well.
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It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
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Well the newest part to our neverending drama of a life is DBF's ex wife tried to kill herself Friday night. We don't really know what happened. We're gussing she took a bunch of pills when she got home late from work, then the guy she lives with must have found her in the morning. DBF tried to call the hospital for information but he's not on the list of people to give info to. I'm sure that's because her family is blaming him for all this since he's been bugging her about paying any sort of child support and seeing their son. You would think they would let him know since their son lives with us but I guess not. The only reason DBF found out at all is a cousin of her's finally called him. Her older son's father told us he could get info and was told Saturday she had liver damage and was on a ventilator. DBF called the hospital this am to try again for information. They told him all they could say was everything was ok. So at least now we don't have to worry she may die and then try to explain to a 7 year old what happened. She hasn't seen their son for a week anyway - didn't take him for either of her visitation days this week - so we are planning on telling his son that his mom is very sick right now and can't take him overnight for a little while. I don't know what we'll do about visitation eventually. We know she won't be taking him for quite some time but neither of us are all that nuts about the idea of overnights anytime soon. I'm guessing she will probably be transferred to a mental health place that's in the area. It's kind of known around here as the place people go live at for a while when they're suicidal to get help. At this point we just kind of laugh at everything that seems to always happen - can't help it. It's like a soap opera. But thank god we don't have to explain to a 7 year old that his mother is dead. I can't even imagine.
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It's got to be rough for you guys. I would definitely not allow her to have unsupervised visitation should she recover enough to be able to see him again; there's no telling what she might do. Don't fall for "she'd never do anything like that" reasoning. Don't risk it. I would approach the court now to ask for this.
The poor little guy! What's going thru that Mom's head? Our daughter just married a young man with a son and daughter who have not seen or heard from their Mom in years. She left because she said she was never cut out to be a Mom. Yet now she is living with a man in Texas and has two babies (Mike still hears from her parents). She owes a ton of child support and will never come back because of the arrest warrant out for her. Can you imagine what these little kids go thru? All we can do is love them the best we can and hope it is enough! We have built-in grandkids now and they love us like crazy and that works for us. Good luck with all the heartaches and headaches. I feel for you! Bigred
You and DBF and his son needs them alot. I really hope every thing works out for yall. But at the same time you said the following
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DBF tried to call the hospital for information but he's not on the list of people to give info to. I'm sure that's because her family is blaming him for all this since he's been bugging her about paying any sort of child support and seeing their son. You would think they would let him know since their son lives with us but I guess not.
The last time I read a post DBF is still married to the woman. If I was him I would go to the hospital, go to the head person there and say last time I check i am the one is to be kept advised of the medical going ons with her. Tell them only he and the other guy that has the other son is the only 2 that can get any information on her. Let her parents sit and bite on that one. Because the day that woman said I do to the DBF her parents were taken out of the loop.
Now on the other hand he could do the above and when it bites the parents butt I would say ya know you want to make the choices, go to court and fight for power of atturny (how ever you spell it) and custity of her and then you can sign the devorice papers and you can sign the right to the child away and then me and my son will be out of all your lives for good.
Her parents really don't have any rights in the matter. If it came to her not getting off the machines and they asked about pulling the plug so to speak, he is her next of kin and what he says go. Tell DBF to stand up to the dead beat's parents. If not for himself but for his son and the brother.
yes.....your BF has all the power at this point..... he has the right to know what is going on. however....if i was him (and of course i am not).... i would be at the court house bright and early tomorrow morning filing for full custody with no visitation from that woman. he will have no problem getting it..... i would give up on the child support...it is just not going to happen.... you are going to have to raise that poor lil boy as your own....he needs a motherly role model..and you appear to be it. its going to be so hard...but you guys can do it if you really try...and that poor child can still have some sort of a normal life.
my thoughts and prayers are with you and your bf...andthat sweet kid that is caught in the middle of all this. tons of pixies and spirit are being sent your way so you can do what you have to do for this child....he is all that matters now.
DBF tried to tell the hospital when we first found out that he was her husband and they said it didn't matter, they couldn't release any information. Then again who knows what her family said - they could've told the hospital staff anything. Once his ex was alert again, she told the staff they could give DBF info. His ex isn't so bad she would keep that sort of information away from him but her parents will.
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