Have things gotten any better for you/your daughter?
Yes and no...
Yes, because she's with me the majority of the time, we have a great schedule, structure, bedtimes, routines, have a lot of fun together etc.
The bad...
Mother shows up at school and sees daughter each morning when I drop her off... sees her last before school, gives her lunch etc
I think it's a violation of the DVI... working the issue with lawyer
Also making major medical decisions (therapy) without my consent... working that issue as well and I believe the therapist is stopping after I made it clear my lawyer was about to get involved. Still waiting on the detailed notes, she denied me initially until I followed back up sternly.
Continues to post about me on social media... addressing that as well
Filed contempt against me within 10 days.. nothing in it, probably not going to make the judge happy, nothing I can do about that.
She's appealing the order... that's her right, we shall see what happens.
Continually sends me parenting messages almost demanding 50/50 custody and it's in the best interest of our daughter, she's upset etc...
I don't respond except the occasional, she doesn't act how you mentioned in my care, doesn't do those things etc.
The mother is the one who makes up these lies or upsets my daughter by crying when she's around, making up things, false promises etc.
My phone calls don't happen when she's not with me at the scheduled time... it's random... 20-30 mins before, 20-120 mins after, even though I'm the one who does the outreach for all calls.
We are going to address that, as a specific time is in the order unless we both agree. We obviously can't. I've suggested moving up calls as she says it interferes with her schedule. The issue is, she still wouldn't answer or call at that new time.
So... Good she's with me, but I fully expect nothing to ever change. I dealt with her long enough and I see the exact same things she did with her son.
So that's the update for now.. nothing really scheduled on the books yet. She's still awaiting her criminal hearing for the initial DVI violation.
At this point just stay the path, do as best I can etc. I will say, being a single parent is a lot of work
I don't mind it, but now that I'm doing it, I give more props to other single parents, especially if you have more than 1 kid!