Unhappy Hoosier
Junior Member
What is the name of your state?Indiana
I am certainly not a happy Hoosier, I am in the last few weeks before the final hearing on my wife's divorce, I say her divorce because I did not want it, I believe in the sanctity of marriage.
My wife created a tissue of lies and half-truths, to get a protective order, and had me evicted from my own home, I was painted an abusive stepfather for doing no more than trying to bring the kids in line with basic rules I grew up with.
My visitation was limited to "Supervised Visits", and set to be at her mothers. Which I had agreed to, with some miss-givings.
Now as to the problem at hand, I was denied my visitation, called, (Parenting Time) on the Easter weekend. I arrived at the appointed time only to find my son not present, with a phone call to my house, which is 1 block away and walking distance from my mother-in-laws, we were told that he did not want to come over, and M-I-L said she was not going to make him.
The boy is seven years of age and they allowed him to decide whether or not he was going to come over. I don't feel that this is right, I don't know whether to push the issue or not. I said that we would try again tomorrow, only to be told that, "tomorrow is Easter, the house will not be available, I'm having my kids over.
Now I am faced with a new issue, tomorrow is once again my time with my son, and I've been told that they have other plans, they will not be there, I can come over sunday, but tomorrow is out of the question.
I am certainly not a happy Hoosier, I am in the last few weeks before the final hearing on my wife's divorce, I say her divorce because I did not want it, I believe in the sanctity of marriage.
My wife created a tissue of lies and half-truths, to get a protective order, and had me evicted from my own home, I was painted an abusive stepfather for doing no more than trying to bring the kids in line with basic rules I grew up with.
My visitation was limited to "Supervised Visits", and set to be at her mothers. Which I had agreed to, with some miss-givings.
Now as to the problem at hand, I was denied my visitation, called, (Parenting Time) on the Easter weekend. I arrived at the appointed time only to find my son not present, with a phone call to my house, which is 1 block away and walking distance from my mother-in-laws, we were told that he did not want to come over, and M-I-L said she was not going to make him.
The boy is seven years of age and they allowed him to decide whether or not he was going to come over. I don't feel that this is right, I don't know whether to push the issue or not. I said that we would try again tomorrow, only to be told that, "tomorrow is Easter, the house will not be available, I'm having my kids over.
Now I am faced with a new issue, tomorrow is once again my time with my son, and I've been told that they have other plans, they will not be there, I can come over sunday, but tomorrow is out of the question.
The visitation is for my adopted son, her youngest, as for why I didn't "let up" on the problems, and perhaps I should have, the next to the youngest is hyper and has tried to burn the house down on four different occassions, the only girl (15 then, sixteen now)wanted to have her Lesbian girlfriend sleeping in her bed with her and I felt that this was and is inappropriate behavior to show in front of these young impressionable boys, my wife has permitted her to drop out of school. the oldest of the four kids has A.D.D. , he is pretty much a couch potato, who would like the world to come to him, a senior in high school, who I hear now likes to bully the boys. he decided to move in with his bio-dad about a year 1/2 ago, don't know if he's back w/mom or not, but he is sitting for them.