My ex-wife won't play fair
02-September-2010
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Ok, this is not quite to do with the CSA but they get a mention.  My ex-wife and I had our lovely daughter in June 2000.  I loved my ex-wife to pieces, but soon after we were married things began to change.  As a couple we didn’t last and she ended up having an affair then going off with another woman!

I was kicked out of the house, made homeless and I ended up sleeping in my car for quite a while.  During this time she filed a CSA claim and I was of course hit by the maximum level of payment as I didn’t have a fixed address and no household bills to pay as such.

Whilst all this was going through I had no regular access to my daughter and it took me almost eighteen months to get a proper arrangement in place so that I could see her.  So basically I was paying nearly £300 a month for a child that I wasn’t allowed to see, even though I dearly wanted to spend time with her.

Wedding rings - my ex-wife won't play fair

I now at least quite often get to see my daughter at weekends and she sometimes comes to stay at my house.  The ex-wife is at university now and I will often pick up our daughter on a Friday after school and take her home either on Sunday evening or I’ll drop her off at school on the Monday morning.

Due to the nature of my job however, very occasionally this arrangement needs to change and I sometimes can’t see my daughter at the weekend.

Also, sometimes my ex-wife takes her away for the weekend to her girlfriend’s house in London, or to a party or whatever and I can’t see my daughter then either.  Fair enough though, because I think there needs to be some degree of flexibility in these matters.

The problem is that when I say I can’t have our daughter, the ex-wife throws a right tantrum and tells me that “she’s my daughter and I need to put her first”.  Yet when the shoe is on the other foot and she needs to take her away it’s a completely different story.  If I could have my daughter full time I would, but this of course could never happen as the law is biased towards the mother!

Here’s another example of her selfish attitude.  This year the schools closed for Christmas on the Tuesday, so I asked if I could have our daughter from the Wednesday through to Christmas day; that way I could spend some quality time with her.  Usually I pick her up on Christmas Eve and then have to get her back to her mother by lunch time on Christmas day.  I thought it would be nice if I could spend the day with her properly for once.

The ex-wife turns around to me and says “She’s my daughter too, and I would like to spend some time with her as well you know!”

I couldn’t believe it.  She has her practically every day, picks her up from school and looks after her more than I do during the week and she wants more time with her!  Yet as soon as I need a weekend off to do something important, I get a lecture that I never want to spend anytime with my daughter.  Apparently she is lumbered with her all the time and would like some time off once in a while!

So come on ex-wives, ex-girlfriends.  Give us a break, if we pay our way then let us have our say!

By: Stuartkeith


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My partners ex has refused to let him see his daughter, telling other people that he doesn't make an effort to see her etc, when it is her who makes it difficult. She claims that she already has plans to take her out or she is not well, or that his daughter said she does not want to spend the wekend with him. She has a new partner now and a new baby and has stooped to changing her number and moving home. It seems all she wants is money via CSA and must get off on making out she was left holding the baby. Women who do this make me sick, children are not pawns, they deserve to have both parents present in their life unless horrible circumstances such as abuse means it would not be in the best interest of the child. I'm the type of woman who wouldn't even consider contacting CSA, If you would like to see your child then fine, when you have him/her you can spend what ever money you have on your child, doing fun activities or buying them some clothes yourself. If you don't want to see your child then I will happily provide for my child myself. This is how it was with my parents, my dad would have me every other weekend and would spoil me rotten, buy me clothes, cinema, going to the seaside, the aquarium, the zoo. He would pay for my school trips when my mum couldn't afford to and every now and again her would offer her some money towards her bills and grocery shopping. They were amicable with eachother. I know everyones situations are different but it would be nice if it could be like this for everyone. Woman who prevent their children from seing their fathers without good reason shouln't be allowed to be mothers.
*Jade  01-Jul-2010 15:45

 
Paying has nothing to do with it. Men have the right to be with their children as do grandparents. Women who stop fathers, block or harass access are child abusers.
*L  07-Jun-2010 17:00

 
women the dame things that caused all the problems in the world
*mak  29-May-2010 20:48

 
my husband also as same problem.she is married to women and are always demanding extra cash. they use the kids as weapons and emotionly blackmail him. when is it going to stop put up with it for 12yrs now. they av even told him he as to set up trust fund for there childrens future. we cant even afford holiday and they have four a year
*donna  25-May-2010 19:44

 
So many women are absolutely disgusting in their attitudes to fathers..... When the kids grow old enough they realise what manipulative, lying ,state sponging wasters their mothers are.....
*wronged dad  07-May-2010 03:59

 
I think it's completely unfair how the laws are more biased towards the mother. I can't stand women who use their children against their father, if there was some sort of abuse or neglect (towards the child) on the father's end then okay but if the father has been nothing but supportive and loving towards the child, why should the mom have more leverage??
*Confused  02-Mar-2010 18:52

 
A 'woman that wont play fair' ?
CSA women are a disgrace to their race
*jim h  05-Feb-2010 17:33

 
My ex wife and I had three kids. Two boys and a girl.. I Still to this day dont know if my baby girl is really mine. When we got divorced she was having an affair. She has since had another daughter from this guy. I have always paid my CS, and even when I was unemployed paid as much as I could. I see the boys every second weekend, but my daughter isnt allowed to sleep over and I only get her on a sunday. recently she hasn't let my daughter come to me. My daughter is 4, and she says that she doesn't like coming to me anymore. This breaks my heart, and I cry for days. She also asked for more money this year, even more than what has been agreed in the divorce agreement. My current fiance does'nt tolerate her, and tells me to stand up for myself...I'm just afraid of loosing the contact that I have with the kids.. What should I do?
*desperate  27-Jan-2010 09:00

 
Woman, so that someone like you doesn't actualy miss out the fact that I was only "talking" to my own child,

I was also noted that you didn't offer any sympathy to the fact that my ex-wife is a vile evil excuse for a human being, stopping access because the governments turn a blind eye to it.
*Gainsborough lad.  26-Dec-2009 18:36

 
Gainsborough Lad
You must know that U-God is just a troll trying to stir things up, it was a nice attempt until he over egged the pudding with the biblical "yea" and banging on about Adam and Eve and the bloody apple. (If men ever did the supermarket shop Adam could have bought bananas and still be in the garden of Eden!)

Why did you put "talking" in inverted commas? If you were not actually talking what were you doing?
*Woman  26-Dec-2009 16:23

 
I think in "some" instances the women will stop access because they are frightened that the children will see their dad as better than themselves, (As working dads have more cash to spend on their childrens holidays, trips out, and toys)

A lot of women will spend the benefit they have been given for the children on themselves.... catalogue items, pubbing and clubbing, cigarettes, clothes ect,

The rest of them will stop access because they are absolutley evil, using any feeble excuse to justify their actions, even telling the children that "dad don't want to see you" and telling your friends and relatives the same,

Thousands apon thousands of fathers in this country have been, and are still going through this, it happened to me, I was even turned away from my childs pre-school nursery fence by an assistant, for "talking" to my own child, my ex-wife had obviously even closed this little access loophole,

Pure and utter scum they are, there's no other words to describe them, and the governments have let them get away with it.
*Gainsborough lad.  26-Dec-2009 08:10

 
Its a shame so much pain. The earth spins another day is gone and I have yet to see, speak, feel the presec of my two young ones. The mother always say to me oh the kids are not home right now when I can smell them. I have cried and cried and why go to the court so they can set me up with a payment plan and still get treated the same way. The pain never goes away and it can't be replaced with another child by some one else. So there is no answer but as men we have to realize that woman are crazy yes all of them even EVE yea the first one who made Adam bite the apple. Fathers we have to become sneaky. Stop asking for permission. Just go to the schools and speak to the children. Its a shame but what can you do you cant kill the mother or assault or threaten then you will be in jail. You have to prove to the court that she is an unfit parent. and to do that you have to be cold blooded even if it means planting evidence and so on. Or feel the pain over and over and the earth spins. Women have no problem watching you cry feel miserable so why do we care about there feeling so much.
*U-god  25-Dec-2009 23:22


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