Tuesday, November 14, 2006
my great despair
Well, I seem to have a lot lately, but the worst is trying to co-parent with my ex.
It just isn't working. I have used the term parallel parenting for years. Since we broke up, there is little that one would call co-parenting. Honestly, there was little co-parenting when we were together. I did it all. And answered for all my apparent transgressions.
Well last week was the one of the hardest I have had to get through in a long time.
It just isn't working. I have used the term parallel parenting for years. Since we broke up, there is little that one would call co-parenting. Honestly, there was little co-parenting when we were together. I did it all. And answered for all my apparent transgressions.
Well last week was the one of the hardest I have had to get through in a long time.
I'll go backwards. Friday night about 10:20 Eli calls me from the RAC (middle school teen center) and says that Missy thinks it is 10:30 that she is supposed to pick them up but it was really 10 PM and that if no one gets them now, they will be taken to the police station. I hang up and try and call Missy and a man answers her phone answering with the name of the non-profit she works for. I ask for Missy and he says she doesn't work there anymore. WTF? Now she has no cell phone (it was theirs), no landline and I try Camille's cellphone but she doesn't She gets on the phone and is screaming at me to come get them. I try to explain that they have two moms,. two homes, it is not my night with the kids and she keeps saying ... I don't understand why you don't come and pick up your children. I finally lose it with her.
Jump in the car and go over there. Well, the kids are gone, Missy having picked them up but I talked with the woman who runs the RAC (well she did for years and is transitioning in the new people.) She was great and apologetic. I was so upset I can't remember the name of the woman I spoke to but I fear she is the one who is going to run this. Well it is a co-op and each kid needs to have someone sign up to chaperone. Great. My time is coming. Maybe I can get Missy to do it after three years and me paying the entrance fees for them? hahahahahah.
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Update: Missy says she didn't lose her job. She turned her phone in and got a new one at work. Thank god. But something is going on because she has been terrible to me lately.
And so it goes.
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Update: Missy says she didn't lose her job. She turned her phone in and got a new one at work. Thank god. But something is going on because she has been terrible to me lately.
And so it goes.
