Christine, I hope your kids will be there for you this time round, I believe they will. Think you might be one of the luckier parents with your kids....

Things will improve for me because I've wiped them out of MY life. I can't & won't stop Rod from loving them, talking to them or seeing them, but not here. [apart from over the phone.] I refuse to have anything to do with anyone with little or no respect, care & compassion. They are history to me, and I'm glad. Rod hasn't spoken with the eldest since she spoke with him and called me the worst names you could imagine - can't & won't repeat what she called me to him, but he hung up on her & has not responded to her calls/text since. Think she may have gone in the wrong sirection with that one & under estimated him. She'll always be his daughter, but that doesn't mean she is a wonderful caring respectful human being, which to me she clearly isn't....I feel for Rod, his two girls I feel for also, but not as much as I despise them...harsh word for me. I no longer speak of them to him for fear their behaviour - more to him - will upset him...very sad.