Here we are, in the 5 o’clock hour of Friday. I dropped Matt off this morning to his step-grandfather. His mother was not home like she claimed she was going to be. Since she wasn’t home I went to the police department to make sure they documented that she was not home and that I was dropping him off into the care of her father-in-law. It was documented and the drop-off was made at approximately 9:30 am. She wants things by the book, yet she does not do it. So, soon we will be heading back down to Fairborn to pick him up downtown at the parade. Just like last year at this time.

I just have to put this out there, this is a miserable person; my ex-wife. You cannot be a happy person, happy with yourself, happy with your life, happy with anything and be as vindictive or spiteful to anyone else on the planet as she is. I truly think she is suffering from some form of depression that has her this way, either that or she just has some anger issues that need dealt with. She comes from a family line of anger. Whatever the issue, she needs to get it resolved, it is like this poisonous tumor growing inside her and it will just continue to cause more and more problems both mentally and physically.

Oh, when I dropped Matt off this morning it was the oddest thing. Matt went up into the house and the Father-in-Law stood in the doorway. He glared me down! I don’t know what his issue was, but he made sure that he continued to do so as I got in the car, backed out of the driveway, and pulled up the street. Maybe he did not realize how attractive I was and he was drawn to me with his eyes, or maybe he thought he was doing some sort of intimidation thing. If it was the latter, which seems more likely, it didn’t really work; in fact he sort of looked like an ass doing it.

I can honestly say that I don’t care for her current husband or his family. Maybe I have explained this before, if not I will now. First, the above reason, they seem to think they hold some form of intimidation. Her husband has done similar things in the past, the whole glaring thing. What is that? What is hoped to be accomplished by this? Honestly, I do not in any way understand it, I do know it is done a lot with wild animals, but we are talking about people here, is there no domestication? Her husband also likes to get on the phone and tell me how he is tired of this or that, if his wife does something wrong and I call her out on it then she gets pissed. When she gets pissed he inserts himself into the equation and starts telling me how things are and how he is going to come and kick my ass and what-not. Who knows maybe some day he will take some act of physical aggression towards me, then I could see to it that my son never has to spend a moment around him again.

This leads me to another point of why I don’t like the man. My son tells me how much getting spanked with a belt hurts, I ask him of he gets that done to him at his Mom’s house and he says, “Yes”. What the hell? I don’t spank my son, I don’t ever have to. He got 3 open hand pats on the butt when he was younger for doing something wrong and I have never had to do it again. I find out that not only is he getting spanked, but spanked with a belt, this is far beyond what I find acceptable as a parent. I know, there are many different views on this out there, but mine is that anything more than an open hand is going too far. Once during a 2 cent insertion by her husband I asked him about it whether he has spanked my son with a belt, he openly admits it. I tell him that I don’t agree with that form of punishment period, and having it done by a step-parent is outrageous. You just don’t spank other people’s children. I told him that I don’t want to hear of this happening again. He said, “Do you want me to call you when I have to do it again so you can hear it for yourself?”. This is bold, BOLD. This man really has no clue, who would you have to be to be able to do that? I told him I wish he would because I would have the Sheriffs Department there in minutes. If it were not an hour drive, I would be there in minutes. You can bet that children’s service was made aware of this.

I don’t see how anyone can feel that any of this is ok. How can a system let a child stay in this type of environment? You have a mother that gets mad and cusses around her children. You have a step-father who thinks nothing about taking an object and striking a child. You have a couple of people together that think that it is ok for a child under the age of 10 to watch movies that have titles such as “Crank”. My son asked me the other day when I picked him up if I knew what catnip was, thinking it was some sort of joke I played along and said, “No, what?”. His reply, “Crack for cats”. What a way to portray a fatal drug, a cute kitty playing with something, seemingly very happy. Makes crack look like it is nothing like it actually is. I asked him who told him that and he said, “Daddy Tim”. Why is that not surprising? My son is getting an informal drug education about a fatal drug that makes it seem like something that is enjoyable. I wish common sense could be given out; I would have a truckload delivered to the adults in that household.

I am not really writing this for anyone but me, but for any of you web crawlers out there following along I hope this gives you a little more insight into why I am taking a stand against my ex-wife and why I feel that she is not the ideal custodial parent. I know people out there would like to believe that I am just some asshole who wants to take a child away from his mother, but it is nothing like that. A child needs a mother, but not one like that. There are groups out there that fight for the removal of children from far better environments; I wish a couple of them would back me.

Well, that is all for now, got to get ready to head out.

Take care web.