Phone Messages

Drama Mama, some days I just want her to go away.  My husband’s X can’t seem to not have drama in her life.  If my husband won’t give it to her, she will go to other family members, of ours.   We have court again in a little over two weeks.  We received the mediation report the day of our last hears, so other than the court to demand there be supervised exchanges, due to mama drama and the cops being called to the last two exchanges before the last hearing, we had the hearing extended for almost 5 more weeks.  So, as is predictable just before a hearing, she creates drama.  She called my husband’s mom regarding my stepson’s rash that had been on his neck.  My mother-in-law was out of town for the holiday weekend, so we didn’t get any information until this morning, our exchange was Friday.  OK, be it we are intelligent individuals and figured out pretty fast that he had a rash; we had no information on if she had been using medication and if so what that medication was and if it would react w/ anything we would use.  We simply waited a day to apply any medication we had on it. 

I think through this trying to decide why in the world she would want to do this.  There are two things that come to mind, first she MUST have drama and since my husband won’t give it to her by pushing his buttons directly, she is going to find a new way. Second, we have used almost every email and phone call from her since January against her for our court hearings.  It was appropriate for us to do so, she berates my husband and makes calls leading her son to tell his dad that he doesn’t want to spend time with him

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It’s amazing to me though, she (I repeat SHE) requested at mediation that we not contact each other’s families unless it is an emergency.  It is the one and only thing on the mediation report that is spelled out as agreed to. 

On another note, I am SO thankful that the exchanges are supervised.  It has dramatically lowered the drama at exchanges and for every 15 minuets she is late she pays them $20.