After 4 long, painful years of taking my ex back to court to fight for custody, I am finally just starting to make peace with it all. In the past, I had made some bad decisions and built up so much resentment towards my husband at the time…I was just done. He was never on my side when it came…
n 1999 I was 29 and living in Amsterdam. I met my now ex-husband while traveling in the United States in 1996. Three years later, we married and I moved to be with him in the U.S. I had a difficult childhood which left me with a lot of unhealed emotional issues that I brought into the marriage. It meant…
PART ONE I left my husband 5 years ago. Our daughter was 3 at the time. My daughters father was always a hands-on dad so when we separated I assumed we would continue sharing childcare. However, my daughter didn’t want to keep switching households (half the week with me and other half with him) and preferred to stay with her…