I'm on strike

[saddina]

Talk to your father about this. Or bring a baggie of tide from home for your use. At your age, you're old enough to have some say in the visitation, if you don't want to go, tell your mother you'd like to go to court and change the schedule.

 

[Zahboo]

I've talked with my dad about it and how I'd like to just stay here every other weekend, but he turns it into how he's a bad parent blah blah and makes it seem like I don't love him. He turns it and twists it to where I feel like crap for proposing an idea, and I'd like to be able to do it witout having to go to court, but I doubt I'll be able to...

 

[valentinebaby]

Ya know, in most states, once you're over the age of 12, YOU can choose who you want to live with. I know it's stressful, but it may be best for you. Otherwise, try to pick a time when you can talk to both your father and his wife (when they are in a good mood and haven't been drinking!) and have a "come to Jesus" talk to see if they'll listen. Good luck!

 

[Zahboo]

Me and his wife can't even be in the same room without rolling eyes and sucking teeth, I won't say I'm innocent in it, but she started it. Pretty much it's come to she doesn't exist in my world and I don't exist in hers and I'm content with that.... I'm just here because I have to be.

 

[saddina]

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Uh, he choose a wife that loathes you and vica versa, not exactly an ideal parent (now note I'm not saying let a teen pick your spouse either, but this situation of her being singled out is unjust, and it seems he doesn't care to help his child out). Frankly I'd bow out of the visitations, and let a judge know that it's "disruptive to my schooling" to have to trade homes midweek. It doesn't have to be about who's the better parent, it has to do with what is least disruptive to your studies and life now.

 

[ScoobyRoo]

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Uh, he choose a wife that loathes you and vica versa, not exactly an ideal parent (now note I'm not saying let a teen pick your spouse either, but this situation of her being singled out is unjust, and it seems he doesn't care to help his child out). Frankly I'd bow out of the visitations, and let a judge know that it's "disruptive to my schooling" to have to trade homes midweek. It doesn't have to be about who's the better parent, it has to do with what is least disruptive to your studies and life now.

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