Re: New and sounding off!
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 8:10 am
Well the relationship between us and my step-daughter just gets worse. It is so hard to stand back and just take the abuse and downright lies about us. I know we have to be grown up and calm in this situation but it is so hard when you are faced with someone who uses every opportunity to have a go.
How on earth did we get to here? Everything was great until she realised that she had to go to court. Now it is all our fault.
The case conference said we should apply for residence but she has forgotten that.
The social worker and health visitor say she can't cope, but she has forgotten that too.
She had the police called to her address 4 times Sunday night over the new boyfriend. The same guy who threatened my husband outside the core group meeting last week. Yet she STILL thinks she will be able to have her baby back.
I am sick of fighting her. I am fed up of us being the bad guys in her eyes. And I know it hasn't really started yet.
The worst bit for me is the fact that she now gets to see the baby twice a week (supervised) and it is heart wrenching knowing that he is not in the house. The contact is mainly for the formal assessment of her parenting capacity (as ordered by the court) but even so it is hard for us. The only good thing being that the baby will not remember any of this in years to come.
How on earth did we get to here? Everything was great until she realised that she had to go to court. Now it is all our fault.
The case conference said we should apply for residence but she has forgotten that.
The social worker and health visitor say she can't cope, but she has forgotten that too.
She had the police called to her address 4 times Sunday night over the new boyfriend. The same guy who threatened my husband outside the core group meeting last week. Yet she STILL thinks she will be able to have her baby back.
I am sick of fighting her. I am fed up of us being the bad guys in her eyes. And I know it hasn't really started yet.
The worst bit for me is the fact that she now gets to see the baby twice a week (supervised) and it is heart wrenching knowing that he is not in the house. The contact is mainly for the formal assessment of her parenting capacity (as ordered by the court) but even so it is hard for us. The only good thing being that the baby will not remember any of this in years to come.