Good Lord, it's terrible to hear about all this poisonous manipulation going on. I'm with Robb: what the heck? I've been talking to Nikki about her situation, but now I see two more moms talking about custodians of children spreading lies and subverting the truth to the children to salve their own egos. I'm in training to be a psychologist, and have also been through oodles of therapy myself from the stuff my folks pulled on me. I know that the sort of behavior I'm hearing about in this tribe will almost surely result in many years of pain and suffering on the part of both children and real parents, and lots of therapy for the kids, eventually - hopefully. It's just too awful, and it breaks my heart. Children are the most precious beings in the world and the future of our society. Just listening to the news tells you how much child abuse has been going on for ages. We simply must bring these generational cycles of poison to a halt. For myself, my son is on his own and while he faces his own struggles - and I'm tried by the fact that I can't be there with him now, but only for him - at least he has escaped from the troubled household of his mother.
I'm not sure that was of any help to anyone but myself; I just had to vent the distress I feel at hearing of these goings-on that I know are building up decades of suffering for innocent children. I know becuase I've been one of them.