Act 1

So, one quick call to my attorney later, we have papers stating that I have Sunday night telephone visitation at 8:30 p.m. and that BH is to have the boys available for me to talk to them, no ifs, ands, or buts. About this time, it started where WS1 was busy doing his sports-school function-friends thing. We talked sporadically and eventually it led to THIS NIGHTMARE. The Sunday night phone calls worked great, for the most part.

At first.

I would call at PRECISELY 8:30 p.m. central time. WS1 would answer and we’d talk. What’s so hard about that? But every call, SM would come in after 15 minutes and tell him it was time for him to get off the phone. Do you have any idea how effen annoying it is to have a STEPMOTHER tell you how long you can talk to your own son?!? Of course, I would let him go-I didn’t want him getting in trouble with her. I wouldn’t have kept him on the phone for long anyway, it was just the principle.

AAUURRGGHH!

I tried to keep our conversations as light and kind-hearted as I could. I didn’t want to make it a chore for him to have to talk to me. As for me, I loved our Sunday night ‘chats’. It meant the world to me. So much so, that I even kept notes about our conversations. I want to hold on to as much of him as I possibly could.

Eventually, that all went to hell in a hand basket. Some Sundays WS1 would answer, others he wouldn’t. (Neither BH or SM would ever answer for him.) Turns out WS2 would be “at a friend’s house” or “outside”. Well who let him go?? It was amazing that BH could break a court order and not be concerned in the least bit. I would try calling the following day, the next, nothing. When I confronted BH about this, he would say “you’re the one that wanted to have Sunday nights at 8:30”. In other words, Sunday night is the only night you can talk to him. I could never get it through his thick brick-wall of a skull that I had to have that put in place so that I would be able to talk to him in the FIRST  place! (He still to this day does not understand.) But wait, didn’t he say that I ‘could call anytime?’

So what do the hubs and I do? We buy a razor phone (all the rage at the time) and a 2 year contract commitment for WS2 for Christmas. I happened to mention it to WS1 so that if BH and SM talk about getting him one, WS1 could tell them that he was already getting one. Well, WS1 mentioned it. And SM got him one anyway. She also just happened to give it to him as an EARLY Christmas present-as in the VERY SAME day he was coming to be with me for our Christmas visitation.

I feel lame and she comes across as the HERO.  bleh

all I can say is where’s the xanax…….

YW

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