When my parents divorced, my dad was “required” to see us three times a week for a certain number of hours. But, my mom let him see us outside of those hours whenever my sister and I wanted to. Ideally, my dad would have moved somewhere where my parents could share custody, but since he didn’t, we had a good arrangement I think 🙂
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My parents divorced when I was about 11 as well and it was quite odd to go from a VERY VERY VERY close relationship with my father, to seeing him maybe once a week, to seeing him not at all all in under 6 months, even asking the judge in our custody arbitration to have 50/50, I was told no. By the end of the first year my father got with another woman and moved in together. We talked maybe once a week on the phone and saw eachother maybe once a month. The girlfriend was very two faced and made it obvious we kids were just in the way.

Now at 25 I haven’t seen him but once for about 35 minutes when Elijah was born in 2008 only because my brother basically forced him to come. They didn’t really care about elijah and my step mom just spent the whole time talking about things she bought recently. It was akward and my dad didn’t even make an effort to talk. he just sat there staring off into space. Before that I hadn’t seen him for 4 years and that was when he came to stay with me for a month and than disapeared. that was a long story in itself. Needless to say he doesn’t care. He has a 13 year old and a 6 year old with my stepmom. Those are his children now. My brother and I don’t matter to him. That is clear.

I just don’t understand how ANY parent, mom or dad, could disown their children like that. I really dont.
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