I put this in "Small Talk" because it's non-Gord but would everybody here think positive for my sister Mary in Atlanta? She's going to court tomorrow morning, 9 am, for her divorce hearing.
Opposing counsel is nasty, her husband has 58 affidavits on his behalf testifying to his being a fine upstanding citizen. My sister just got notice for affidavits last Friday. You think he might have been working on this for a while?
Meanwhile he's asking for a psych exam for my sister, full custody of their boys, home exam etc. When asked by her attorney what my sister thought he wanted out of the divorce, she told her "he wants the boys, he wants the house, he wants my money, and he wants me dead."
My sister is disabled from neurosurgery - limited mobility in neck and shoulders, chronic pain which requires daily medication, nerve damage in the extremities making walking difficult, plus other health issues. But she gets the laundry done, grocery shopping with help from the boys (13 and almost 15), schlepps them to appointments, talks with their teachers - they're A students - and is the one who does what she says she'll do. All with numb feet and blinding pain.
Their father has snowed everybody for years, and continues to do so to the outside world. He's emotionally abusive, using my sister's illnesses against her, having multiple affairs, cutting her off financially (he makes 6 figures, she gets Social Security disability checks monthly.) He hasn't paid a dime in repairs on the house in the 2 years since she kicked him out ("not my problem") pays his bills but not hers, and she has to ask for grocery money each week to feed the boys. He tells her between obscenities that she's twisted, bleeding him dry, unloveable and stupid (she was an attorney and administrative hearing judge.)
But everybody thinks he's Mr. Swell. He's a corporate attorney with a big telecom company. He's set himself up as the concerned parent who looks after his boys because their mom just can't manage it.
Sorry to rant, folks, but this narcissist has devasted my sister, tramatized my nephews, and is likely to skate away unscathed from the whole mess. So keep a good thought for her but if a telephone pole up and hits his car, there'll be no mourning in this house.
[This message has been edited by Auburn Annie (edited October 06, 2004).]
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