Family and Relationships

She moved her lover in
My ex and I had been together for approximately five years before it all went wrong and things ended up the way they are now. My life is crumbling before me and any advice would be welcome.
Published: 24-April-2008   18 comments

Cheating husband left me broke
After being married for 30 years and standing by my ex husband , we got divorced after I caught him cheating with a girl younger than our daughter. He has treated me appallingly and now lives the good life with his new wife.
Published: 18-April-2008   3 comments

Ex-wife knows how to play the CSA
This is another gripe about those lovely people at the CSA. When my ex-wife and I split up, I moved in to rented accommodation and paid my ex-wife £500.00 per month. I continued this for the first year.
Published: 17-January-2008   17 comments

No child support from wealthy family
I was with my partner for two and half years and we have recently split up due to family pressures. He comes from a wealthy family and I am tired of feeling that I am constantly battling against his mum.
Published: 16-January-2008   13 comments

I still love unfaithful girlfriend
My girlfriend and I have had steady relationship for two years. We both loved each other the entire time, but in being from a strictly militant family, I was hesitant to show all but the smallest signs of affection.
Published: 18-October-2007   15 comments

Still guilty according to the CSA
Some time ago I wrote a story about how the CSA made me guilty until proven innocent.  It is now two years on and I have had just about enough of the situation. All I want is a DNA test.
Published: 11-October-2007   6 comments

I don't want to choose his friends
I'm not a crazy psycho girlfriend who hates his friends. I don't want to choose his friends because I don't want him choosing mine and I just want us to have a healthy relationship.
Published: 24-September-2007   9 comments

Breaking away from a violent relationship
I am a single mother with three children. I was forced to leave my violent relationship with my ex-husband as it was beginning to affect the children. After many visits to court I finally managed to get him out of my life.
Published: 10-August-2007   7 comments

Jealous ex-wives use kids as pawns
I find it unbelievable how women who are mothers of children can think it is OK to use their kids as pawns to try and 'get back' at their ex husband - as well as numerous other pain in the ass tactics to destroy his life.
Published: 28-July-2007   66 comments

We don't want to have children
I'm fed up being told to have children by absolutely everyone! Why do people assume that because I am now in my late twenties, that I must now either have a child or that I must be planning for one in the near future?
Published: 21-July-2007   18 comments

Women who trick men into parenthood
Women who trick men into parenthood and have multiple children by different men! As these women go on their merry way producing more offspring for the state to support, do they give a thought to the feelings of anyone else?
Published: 19-July-2007   34 comments

She doesn't want me back
Up until eight months ago everything was just normal then my wife started to find fault with our relationship. She then began to receive and send lots of text messages late at night, supposedly from 'work'.
Published: 25-June-2007   23 comments

Vulnerable young girl needs help
I am working with a young girl of 17 whose mother kicked her out thinking the local council will re-home her. The girl did not want to leave the family home but her mother and stepfather are adamant they do not want her back.
Published: 06-June-2007   15 comments

Verbal agreement with ex-partner
When I split with an ex-partner we had a verbal agreement between us so that instead of paying monthly maintenance for our child, she would receive a one off payment. This was all her idea as it happens.
Published: 01-June-2007   12 comments

Ex-husband buys daughter's love
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.
Published: 08-May-2007   8 comments

Husband couldn't resist temptation
I guess its more fun to chase shiny new things than rekindle love in a solid loving emotionally stable respecting union. I am over him now, but I thought I'd toss this out there anyway because any feedback at all helps.
Published: 03-May-2007   7 comments

Ex-wife uses CSA money for herself
For the last 8 years I have paid my ex-wife through the CSA for our 2 children. During this time I have struggled every week to pay for every day things such as food, while at the same time my ex-wife has enjoyed a life of luxury.
Published: 23-April-2007   39 comments

My dad shouldn't pay maintenance
Why should my dad have to pay maintenance? I am 16 years old and every weekend I go and visit my dad and my step mum. My dad always pays for everything whilst my mum on the other hand, she couldn't care less.
Published: 18-April-2007   16 comments

Free drinks for everyone
It really annoys me that some people will not put their hands in their pockets to buy a drink when it is their turn. For me this seems to happen at weddings and birthdays etc.. where my brothers and I will end up paying for everyone.
Published: 17-April-2007   10 comments

A biased and unfair system
It took the CSA nearly twelve years to finally persuade my ex-partner to pay any kind of maintenance towards our children, but this gripe isn't about maintenance or payments.
Published: 11-April-2007   16 comments

Daughter rejected by ex-husband
What my ex-husband has done to our daughter is truly beyond belief.  Not only has he not bothered with her for the last six years, but he has actually managed to turn his own sons against their sister.
Published: 20-March-2007   19 comments

Absent father makes no effort
We split up over 6 years ago, and to this day the father of my children hasn't paid one penny in support. He is now in another relationship and has a son to his current partner who is claiming every benefit she can lay her hands on.
Published: 14-March-2007   18 comments

Young, naive and trusting
It riles me that all absent fathers are seen as the bad guy when there are always two sides to a story. My husband was forced into this situation and his only crime was to be young, naive and trusting.
Published: 07-March-2007   4 comments

My ex-wife won't play fair
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
Published: 12-February-2007   18 comments

Uncontrolled children in public
I'm fed up with frequently being confronted by uncontrolled children in public places. Weekly visits to the supermarket are now just as much about avoiding the sliding child that whizzes past the end of an aisle just as you emerge.
Published: 15-December-2006   66 comments

I don't want to get married
Isn’t it strange how people act when you tell them you don’t want to get married? If (like me) you are in your mid-thirties and still not married you are either weird or there must be something wrong with you.
Published: 13-December-2006   45 comments

The CSA penalise good fathers
The CSA are at it again then. It seems that the CSA spend all their energy chasing the 'good fathers', whilst the ones who do anything to avoid payments are getting away scot-free.
Published: 05-December-2006   66 comments

Problems with CSA payments
I am absolutely fed up with the CSA. I guess you could say that I am one of the lucky ones since I have actually been receiving payments through them, albeit not regular and often there ends up being a mess up of some sort.
Published: 08-November-2006   53 comments

Kids have no respect for parents
My partner and I have a loving relationship that is being destroyed by this spoilt brat, who is arrogant and highly opinionated. Children ought to respect their parent's wishes and not sabotage their relationships.
Published: 22-August-2006   43 comments

Teenage girls that get pregnant
Apparently my partner had a one night drunken stand with this girl and she actually had the kid, he has now had to do a DNA paternity test which costs £290, and now she is putting her DNA test off.
Published: 16-August-2006   213 comments

Our relationship changed
My relationship with my boyfriend has changed dramatically recently. He was once really interested in me, but he doesn't seem to care any more. These days he is constantly up the pub and anything I say seems to bug him.
Published: 24-July-2006   26 comments

Men have no right to reproductive choice
Would be parents should have equal rights. Pregnant women have right to an abortion, but men have no equivalent right. I agree the woman has the right to abortion, but should the man not have the same right to decide?
Published: 10-July-2006   77 comments

Men and relationships
He tells me he loves me every day, but for me, actions speak far louder than words. Are the gifts he gives me, or the occasional night out a form of compensation for areas where he lacks such attention and commitment?
Published: 28-June-2006   19 comments

Auntie Virus spoils mum's birthday
She is one of the most unreliable, incompetent, deceptive and selfish members of the family and can only win by cheating. Auntie 'virus' Anne managed to completely ruin my mother's birthday surprise.
Published: 14-May-2006   11 comments

There is no kid free zone
Is there anywhere I can go that I don't have to suffer the racket of hyperactive kids? Many of the parents have no idea how to behave in public themselves, but I wish they would try to control their children.
Published: 11-May-2006   57 comments

Why are weddings so expensive?
Weddings are expensive, even if you decide to organise it all yourself. Why is it that everyone you deal with in the area of wedding and bridal services is just out to rip you off?
Published: 02-May-2006   15 comments

Freaks on Internet dating sites
Chat rooms and singles dating sites seem to be inhabited by a fair number of freaks and that’s my gripe! Recently I’ve found myself a lovely lady, so I’ve decided to sign myself out of the Internet chat rooms and dating sites.
Published: 09-January-2006   38 comments

Why does she want a divorce?
I have been married for 8 years, but now all of a sudden my wife has announced that does not want to married to me any longer and wants a divorce.
Published: 02-January-2006   48 comments

CSA, guilty until proven innocent
Does that sound like you? I’m a hard working person from a hard working family. I didn't want kids, but she did and she was less than honest with me! Now the CSA are involved and I'm treated like a walking wallet.
Published: 15-December-2005   294 comments

Weekend dad can't be bothered
I thought when a couple splits up and there are children involved that both parents are meant to have responsbility over the children.
Published: 05-October-2005   66 comments

My children live with their dad
Why is it when a man tells someone that they live apart from their children they get sympathy? But when a mother apart from her children tells someone her children live with their father, they get frowned upon.
Published: 11-August-2005   75 comments

Parents with unruly children
I have a real issue with parents with unruly children that misbehave in public. They just allow their child to run amok and do what they like.
Published: 19-July-2005   378 comments

Single parent, dad doesn't pay maintenance
I am fed up with parents who will not take responsibility of their own children. I am a single mother to my 4 year old daughter, her Dad left me for another woman when she was 7 months old.
Published: 11-July-2005   130 comments

School run parents with their 4x4
I come across the school run mum every day driving to work. My problem with these people isn't that they drop their kids off, its more to do with their general attitude, and the lack of consideration they show others when they're on the school run.
Published: 24-June-2005   88 comments

Male interest magazines
Mens magazines on the rack. Have you ever been in a shop and your eyes have been drawn to male interest magazines? Do you ever feel embarassed when you see them and does sex really sell?
Published: 16-April-2003   8 comments