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So I haven't posted for sometime now. Things are a whole load better I haven't seen my ex for 6 months and haven't let contact with our child either due to the drinking. But I find this out today and I feel sick! His best drinking buddie had been up on a rape charge, also been accussed of interfering with children but not enough evidence. I don't even want to think why he hangs out with him....but I needed to tell someone.
I agree with Steely, that's terrible. I also agree that I wouldn't let the kids near him unsupervised. It's a good thing you haven't let your ex have contact with your child in six months.
However sick and twisted this all is, it's good that you know that man has faced a rape charge and has been accused of interfering with children. Now, if you ex is ever allowed to be in contact with you kids again, you'll know about his best drinking buddy and will be able to take the appropriate actions so that your kid is never in contact with that man.
However sick and twisted this all is, it's good that you know that man has faced a rape charge and has been accused of interfering with children. Now, if you ex is ever allowed to be in contact with you kids again, you'll know about his best drinking buddy and will be able to take the appropriate actions so that your kid is never in contact with that man.
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I didn't think anything would shock me anymore when it comes to the ex and his antics. He won't be near my children again. But that is the question that's running round my head, as he's known for a long while about this mans past....why carry on drinking with him.
From all the stories I've read here and what I've experienced in the past year, Alcoholics are not know for their sound and logical reasoning!
Dodge, what is it exactly that you question? That by by still associating with his him while knowing that, he may share the same tendencies (or sick, sick ways) of his buddy?
If that is what you are questionning, then I suggest you listen to your gut feeling. If there is even the glimmer of a doubt for the safety of your child in that regard, I suggest you promptly contact a lawyer and see what can be done about it.
I don't know where you are from, but I know that here in Québec (Canada) my ex SIL asked the Courts to order and psych eval for her ex in regards to his sexual tendencies/perversions... The Court decided that for the safety of the children, he was only allowed supervised visits and that he was never to be left alone, not even for 5 minutes, with the children.
If that is what you are questionning, then I suggest you listen to your gut feeling. If there is even the glimmer of a doubt for the safety of your child in that regard, I suggest you promptly contact a lawyer and see what can be done about it.
I don't know where you are from, but I know that here in Québec (Canada) my ex SIL asked the Courts to order and psych eval for her ex in regards to his sexual tendencies/perversions... The Court decided that for the safety of the children, he was only allowed supervised visits and that he was never to be left alone, not even for 5 minutes, with the children.
Your post reminded me so strongly of a guy named Jimmy Lerner and his book, "You Got Nothing Coming: Notes From a Prison Fish." It's biographical; he ended up in jail after killing a guy. As you read, you find out that the writer is an alcoholic who has dabbled in recovery but only dabbled. His wife has just divorced him b/c of his alcoholism and he is on his own. He meets a new neighbor who is NUTS, severe mood swings, makes sexual comments about young girls, etc. He hangs out w/this guy on and off, knowing full well that he is serious bad news. Things culminate in a trip to Vegas where the neighbor goes off the deep end and starts making threats against the writer's children. So the writer kills him, breaking his neck w/a belt. And goes to jail. And writes about the whole thing as if well, what could he have done different? After all, the guy threatened his daughters; of course he had to kill him. It doesn't seem to occur to him that he should never have been there w/Mr. Crazy Guy in the first place--if he'd used an ounce of judgment, he wouldn't have been there.
I found myself repeatedly asking the same question you ask here: Why on earth wouldn't the writer just stop hanging w/this guy once it was clear he was violent and disturbed? But he doesn't stop, and even when he's been convicted and jailed, he seems to not get that he could have prevented all this. I thought the whole book had a tone to it that I think any of us who've lived w/A's would find very familiar.
I found myself repeatedly asking the same question you ask here: Why on earth wouldn't the writer just stop hanging w/this guy once it was clear he was violent and disturbed? But he doesn't stop, and even when he's been convicted and jailed, he seems to not get that he could have prevented all this. I thought the whole book had a tone to it that I think any of us who've lived w/A's would find very familiar.
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I think I will probably give that book a look tonight if I can find it. I guess it's a case of being so far down the rabbit hole he doesn't think with any logic or reason....maybe? I'm just lost with this one.
they spent rather a while together sharing a cell in jail.
and had lots and lots of time to TALK...........
this whole thing totally creeps me out. i hope you and your precious child never EVER have contact with the EX again. i believe you DODGED a bullet.........
and had lots and lots of time to TALK...........
this whole thing totally creeps me out. i hope you and your precious child never EVER have contact with the EX again. i believe you DODGED a bullet.........
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