Seriously, I'm pulling my hair out here.
I doubt that I could possibly answer everybody's question in the same reply, but I'm going to give it my best shot.
Ok, here we go....(clearing throat).....
1. Yes, we've tried switching days of visitation.
2. I'm not the only one annoyed with the situation, husband feels the same way.
3. It's
not all that different to want to enroll her into horseback riding lessons...the difference is that she (step daughter) specifically asked us if we could, and we told her she had to wait for summer break from school when we knew we would be the only ones who were committed to taking her.
I know that I haven't even begun to touch everyone's questions or comments, but my photographic memory is not functioning tonite.
Ms. T Kirk:
I'm truly sorry if that sounded at all threatening to you, or if you think it would have, had it been in front of a court official. I was not trying to be sarcastic or nasty for that matter, I was writing what I found out from our case worker, in case anybody else wondered.
BB:
Thank you so much for your reply to my original question, it helped out a lot and gave me something to go on.
Any parent, it doesn't matter whether or not you happen to be biological or step....ANY parent in a divorced situation goes through tough times at one point or another. Does it make them a horrible parent? Of course not! I didn't come onto this website to "whine to" anybody. I needed advice, and what better place to come than a website specializing in law?
I never dreamed for a moment (when I was a child stuck in my step daughter's place) that raising a family and getting them through childhood in a divorced situation could be so hard. I apologize daily to my step mother, and to my mother, and my father. Of course, none of them get along, but they love ME, which is what EVERY child needs to know, right?
I don't care if my husbands ex wife and I never become the type to go have coffee together. We don't even have to see eye to eye for that matter. As long as the four of us, meaning my husband, me, his ex wife, and her boyfriend, can raise Bekky with the assurance that ALL of us love her very, very much, THAT is what truly matters. And so far, no matter how much we all disagree, we're doing one thing right. Because at the end of the day, that little girl know's that she has not two, but FOUR parents who would give their own life just to spend another day with her.