ohiogal
i like your quote.
my brother has tried so hard to make it work with his ex. Even after 12 years, she's so bitter. and she's got a new husband. I would think that with someone new in her life she would give up on making his life miserable.
she makes things so miserable. she makes my niece hate her visits with her dad. she calls all weekend and teases her about coming home. she tells my niece that my brother has all these activities planned, so he looks bad when he doesn't do them. the time he wasn't working, he offered to take my niece after school and through summer so her mother wouldn't have to pay day care, and she refuses. she rearranges the weekend visits to fit her schedule, but if he dares to ask to switch, the witch comes completely unglued. in the beginning, she would get mad at my brother because he wouldn't do what she wanted, so she'd hit him or pull his hair, then call the cops and say HE attacked HER. then one time, she got mad when the child wasn't sent home with all the clothes she came with because they were being washed, and she busted my brother's front door down, knocking my sister's little girl in the process, and slapped my brother's girlfriend in the face, then proceeded to slap and try to scratch my brother in the face WHILE holding their child. after that, my brother tried to stay out of it as much as possible, and met in public places to pick up/drop off.
her family makes fun of the child's last name because she carries our last name. she belittles the gifts my brother buys her for birthdays and christmas, and takes back everything that comes from the rest of our family. she tells everyone that my brother is ashamed of his daughter's handicap (deaf). she tells him all the time he should terminate his rights because he's a horrible father. she made the child call her exboyfriends "daddy jim" or "daddy robbie".