I am going to tell you some thing really personal. I am going to do this risking judgement by everyone on this forum. But i think it is nessary so that you know that others have dealt with people like this before, and that someone esle has made it through it alive. When I was 16 I was young and stupid. My dad had a brain anerysm, and almost died. He lived through brian surgery and well the damage that was done left him like toddler. The only person in my family that he could say their name was me, and my mom. He couldnt speak, he couldnt walk, and he peed and had bm's alover the place. this happend in the middle of a school year. My world was torn apart. I had to leave my small town podunk school and go to a school in Denver. After we were able to come home my grades had suffered, and the school I returned to wouldnt accept any of the credits I had managed to achieve while in Denver. My dad was having brian seizures, and the meds they put him on made him hullicinate. He thoughthe was in vietnam, and every one was trying tokill him. He brke a nurses arm. Due to this, I went nuts also. I rebelled and started dating a guy the fits the bill for Tim. And I got pregnant. As I got closer tomy due date he left his job tomake sure that he would be there when the baby was born. When I passed my due date without having the baby, he beat me. I was two weeks past my due date before I went into labor. I have pictures of me holding my new born duaghter with black eyes. I was stupid becuase I tried to stay with him after I had her. "to be a family" Well he would be lovig one minute, and try to kill us the next.. I smartend up when he loaded a gun with one bullet and started pulling the trigger. With each pull of the trigger he would point it at his head , then my head , and then my duaghters. A nieghbor heard my screams and broke through the door and pulled him to the ground and the shot with the bullet init went through the wall right passed might three day old infant. If itwerent for that neighbor he would have killed her. What brought this on was I had to leave the house to takwe our duaghter to a doctors appointment. When we got back he was waiting with a gun in hand. He was arrested and released the next day because his mother bailed him out. I had no clue that he had gotten out. And I moving back to parents was taking a walk with my best friend . He almost ran us over. And after he missed us the first try he was coming back again to try the same thing. My brother was out side and seen this happening, got a gun and shot through his truck window. This startled him enough that he left and went to his mothers house. The cops didn't areest him because his family, told them that he was with them all day. and That we were lying about the window, and told them that it had been out of the pickup for a long time. I got a emergency restraining order and would leave the house. He Violated it 11 times. each time he got bailed out by his family. The last time he violated it was by calling me from jail after he was arrested right out side our house while he was trying to break in. And he had a knife on him that was intended to murder us. He was sentence to 10 years in jail, but was released AFTER 2. I had managed to finish school and was working when this happend. And I had to go through the night mare agian when the court allowed him suprvised visition with my duaghter. HE didnt us the visitation much when he wasnt permitted to come to get Her and he could only see her with a policeman babysitting him. He moved to Arizona and married another woman and had a little boy. He did the same to her to. I was married to my husband by this time. And we figured out he was in jail agian for attempted murder on his wife and son. So we got adoption papers and sent them to him. Luckly he was in a giving mood becuase he signed the papers giving my husband permission to adopt my duaghter. Thankfully he is still behind bars today. And it is a miracle that my duaghter and I are still alive today. Like I said it was a very persoanal story that I dont like telling. But I felt that you needed to know that if you fight hard and long enough you will win. You don't have do really do anything to set someone like this off. You merley have to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. they tend to try to seek out victims and do every thing they can to destory the life. And they can become obessed with you. I fear for you and your family, i really do. And I dont blame you one bit for selling your horses. If he was obcessing over them , he eventually might have killed them. I hope that you will get this solved soon. And if I were you I would keep a gun close. He is so unpredictable and you need all the protection you can get. I still live in fear with what my psycho has done, I get goosebumps when I see a truck like his. Or a person that looks like him. It hard for people to understand situations like this when they havent ever dealt with them. I am sure you guys have done nothing wrong to desevre the problems you are going through. And these people are masters at making people believe that you are the problem. My psychos wife was married to him for three years before he turned on her. And until that time she thought that I was the evil one. She had a parrot and in one of his rages he threw the poor bird into a fire. And hit his 2yr. son so hard the kid got knocked out. I didnt think the guy was bad either. HE was my protector, until I got pregnant. Anyway I have rambled on now for to long, and I have left my self open for ridicule. You guys are doing good, keep with and give anymore. Stand ready for a fight, I am afriad that your battle is just begining. Tim sounds very mentally unstable. Stick to your restraining order, if he gives the tinyest violation call the cops on him. Remeber that if your county courts arent holding to the laws you can appeal to a higher court. GEt a tape recorder attached to your phone so that if he starts calling and harrassing you you will have all the evindence you need to can him. This worked for for me. Sometimes they will block their number to cover the evidence. In colorado it is legal for this to be done on the grounds that one of the parties know they are being recorded. Pad lock all of your gates to the horse corral, and chicken coops. Lock your dor at night and keep you kids close. And stand guard for the possibility that anything can and will happen. I wish you all the luck in the world. And you will be in my prayers.