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Trips to Disney World to gain daughter's love

Ex-husband buys daughter's love

I can't compete with that

Now, whenever she comes home from her dad's, she treats me like I'm HER child. I never do anything right. She constantly yells at me and makes me feel inadequate.



I have been divorced from my ex-husband for five years now and the first four years were absolutely horrible. My ex-husband never, every paid support back then and he's only just started paying in the past 6 months.

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04-5-2008iam gong through the exact same problem as you . I no how you are feeling you just cannot win. my child fathers spoils my daughter rotton and gives her anything she wants, my mother calls him father christmas not a father, we are the ones that haveto get them ready for school,buy all there clothes...morechubbs
26-2-2008Oh my God, I am in the same boat. My Ex is constantly spoiling my kids and belittling me and My decisions when it comes to discipline or anything and he ends up being the hero. The good guy, the Best buddy/friend. I'm trying my best to be the parent and the person that guides my children, hopef...moreVicki
23-2-2008Do not give up. Your ex is only buying things for your daughter and taking her out because he wants to upset you. By gaining her affections he is torturing you on purpose. He wants you to be upset and one of the main things you have to avoid is showing him that he is succeeding. I would suggest talk...moreCrimeny!
21-8-2007Bloody ex husbands!!! and teenagers!!! that's my gripe! My ex didn't bother with the kids for years, lived literally one road away and never bothered. Didn't once help me out when I was on income support, struggling with school uniforms, school trips, proms, etc. CSA said he didn&#...morePdOffStressedHormonal
18-6-2007Sally, you are obviously a troll and either don't understand the situation here or are just a kid spouting off without thinking. If this was anything other than a flippant comment then I shudder to think how you treat your parents! Mariomom, hang in there - she'll come round.Sooty
14-6-2007I think thats its a great idea, very lucky daughter that you have, she must be getting amazing gifts. personally if I was her I would ask for a new ipod, as I got mine a few months ago. then I would ask for a brand new car!!! good idea by the way.sally
15-5-2007He's exerting power over you in the only way he can - or rather the only way he can in his mind. It's not so much a case of buying daughter's love as buying your misery and from what I can see it seems to be working. My advice? Fight back and make sure that visitation rights are on yo...moreSodastream
09-5-2007'Time' will resolve this matter. When your daughter matures, she will realise that your ex-husband, whilst providing some material benefits now - the "fun" things, like going to Disney (an horrific thought!) - does not provide the fundamentally important things that you give, your...morealaneroberts



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