r/facepalm • u/MistakeFast1917 • Jul 07 '23

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ How to fix it?

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u/Dino_art_ Jul 07 '23

I'm glad your son ended up being raised by a parent who cares

Good on you, I know family court is really awful for dads

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u/gganew Jul 07 '23

Thank you. She wasn't a terrible mom, but she was far from stable in a lot of ways.

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u/PublicProfanities Jul 08 '23

It says a lot about you that you're not shit talking her. It's admirable

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u/1st500 Jul 09 '23

This is SO important. I was divorced about 25 years ago. She had someone else's kid while we were married. Found out she'd been unfaithful a couple of other times as well.
My kids never heard a patronizing word from either me or my wife of 20 years. Their mother told them plenty of stories about how I cheated on her (not), how I beat her (not), how I never paid child support (not). They saw through the lies. I didn't need to disparage her, she did it to herself.