Battles

@MissGremlin, I just want to thank you for sharing this, I feel like I understand so much more about your experience. Just know that I am giving you the biggest virtual hug right now. 🥰

Thankyou @AuntGlow ❤️. It's really hard to actually talk about it cos it's a part of me that I've locked up.

Thankyou @Flutterbug9 ❤️.

Still waiting for the picture to be approved.

@MissGremlin Hello sweet. What a brave thing to tell us.

The Court system clearly failed your son and daughter. Having your children taken in those circumstances is one of the worst violations. I’m really sorry I truly am. You must have felt so much pain making the decision to let them stay with your mum. It sounds like now in hindsight that your mum hasn’t done the right thing. You are right you should have been given support to have an immediate home and assistance considering there was family violence. Then the court giving access to your son is absolutely disgusting. I’m so very sorry.

I am glad your son has a relationship with you. It’s awful your mum hasn’t done the turned your daughter against you.

It sounds like your mum doesn’t treat you very well or hasn’t perhaps even as a child.

The kids are probably older now? Hence your son having a relationship with you of his own choosing?

Sending you so much love. It breaks my heart learning of what you and the children have gone through.

@Cuddlebear unfortunately the court often gets it wrong and puts kids in harms way rather than protecting them.

The kids are older now being 19 and 17.

Thankyou sweetheart ❤️

@MissGremlin my friend, I read your post.

I can't imagine the pain of having your kids removed from your care and then having to make that decision.

I am so very sorry you went through that.

Thankyou @NightFury ❤️.

It was never how I had planned my life to go and something I'll never forgive myself for.

This would be so incredibly hard to sit with @MissGremlin.

I am here if you want to talk about any of this further, but on your terms and when you're ready, I don't want to pry or bring up any painful memories. 🫶

@AuntGlow it's already brought everything up. I'm sitting here reliving the moments when everything happened 😞. It's my daughters birthday today and I couldn't say happy birthday to her or see her, that pain in itself is so much.

I'm trying to do my diamond art but it's hard to focus. I don't want to cry. (I'm safe for now).

Oh @MissGremlin, this is so, so hard.

Is there a way you could honour her birthday or soothe the part of you that's grieving tonight? 💛