on 12 December 2024, I had a court date to try and secure 50/50 custody of my children. I thought this would be a fairly easy based on...

This is an older post that I finally decided to finish and post. Hoping to make some progress on the many other drafts that I have save...

As I mentioned at the end of the last entry, the ex admitted to reducing my contact with the kids as retaliation for me contacting the...

For years I’ve been threatened with the “jugendamt” and thought if things got to the point they were involved, I’d probably be screwed...

For the past six years we've had a fairly flexible visitation plan that I really couldn't complain about. I work in the US but travel to...

As mentioned in a few of the previous posts, contact with my step children has been Shakey at best over the past few years. Well, its...

This is a very important but also very touchy subject. More than likely, I’ll offend quite a few people with my views, but I’m going to...

Things got so bad the ex needed to cut me completely out of my step kids' lives and reduce my contact to my children to an absolute...

3/18/2022 So obviously I was a bit down today when I didn't hear from the kids, but shortly after my last post I wrote briefly with DJ so...

3/18/2022 pure sarcasm of course..... The kids did not call again today. They did try calling yesterday but I missed the call by about...

3/17/2022 There are some very common trends that occur on a nearly daily or weekly basis. If friends or family are around, I could tell...

This is just a quick entry to point out some ironic similarities between my current situation and those that I faced 4 years ago. As my...

Well, as the title states, this blog has been an absolute flop up until this point. I have a ton of notes going back over the past 4+...

I hope everyone is having a great afternoon and staying safe from the current pandemic. I'm writing just to give everyone a quick update...

5Feb2018 I had begun to build friendships with a few of my classmates based on our similar military backgrounds, but only a week into...

5Feb2018 I was 7 hours away from taking potentially the most critical test I've ever had and couldn't sleep a wink. I was beginning a...