The Psycho Ex Wife

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Oh, what a treat when she comes out of nowhere with both barrels a’blazin’!

With the very fewest exceptions, I make the children lunch every single day they are with me.  I rotate their different favorites, toss in a snack, some fruit, and a drink.  Nothing out of the ordinary.  Every rare once-in-a-while I get lazy.  Most times I make lunch the night before and have it ready to go.  Fewer times, I make it in the morning during breakfast.  Rarely, I just don’t frigging feel like it and give them each $2.10 to buy the school lunch.

So, imagine my surprise when I get this gem without warning…

LM, If you are having the kids buy lunch when they are with you send them with lunch money. I put money in the account so they can buy when they are with me if I want them to. Last week S2 owed $10 from the previous week that I had to pay so that he could buy. And now I just got low balance notifications, so if they are buying… send money cheapskate!!!

Isn’t it amazing how condescending someone can be when they’re collecting child support from a parent who has more than half of the total custody time, is unemployed and is thus making significantly less money than her?

Originally, I was disinclined to respond, but was curious.  If you remember the Food Deprivation Series, you know that this is a discussion not worth pursuing, but still ironic since less than one year ago, she was encouraging them to buy lunch when they were with me and I was packing lunch.  So I figured I would ask the boys about it.  Smart and savvy they are - it would appear that they occasionally “forget” to use the cash I give them since they are in the habit of just going through the line, giving their pin number and moving on to chow.

Giving them the benefit of the doubt, I urge them to “not forget in the future.”

PEW,

I send them with money the rare time I send them without a homemade lunch. One time last week, I left the house without my wallet and I will send them home to you with $4.20 this week. I actually meant to do it last week.

Other than that single time, I always send them with lunch money.

I spoke to the boys this morning and they said that sometimes they forget to use the money when I send it with them, so that might account for the shortfall. Of course, it’s probably in their bank here or there.

Way to overreact like a petulant child, again.

~LM

Yes, I tossed a dig in there.  A rare moment of weakness.  As expected, it comes with another reply.

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Among the great many other things that occurred in the aftermath of PEW’s discovery of this site, comes another completely delusional text message - this one, from Aunt Drunkenslob (Psycho-SIL) and was unsolicited.  They just don’t know how to stop.

The Text, From Psycho-SIL, 8/24/2009, 8:31PM

I never thought u would stoop 2 this level.  I don’t even know who you are anymore.  I used 2 tell [pew] he would nevdr hurt the boys but those days r gone.

It’s short, thank Heavens for a 160-character limit, but chock full of bullshit, fueled by substance abuse and untreated mental illness.

“I never thought u would stoop 2 this level.”

“Stooping” to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the entire, ugly, abusive, harassing, disgusting truth is something I imagine they all PRAYED I wouldn’t do.  But alas, I’ve done it.  At least I’ve given them the courtesy of not publicly naming them.  Apparently, within minutes of this site’s discovery, they took care of publicly naming themselves to others - friends, family, the kids, who knows who else - for yet some other inexplicably stupid reason.

My guess is that they counted on me “keeping” all of these sick, ugly occurrences secret - simply so that they could continue on unabated.  Reality is - since I have publicly shamed no one, I didn’t really do anything to anyone.  However, in their delusional belief that EVERYONE they tell, even within their own family, will believe none of it to be true - is the most bizarre part of this entire charade.  They may never say it to their faces… but if anyone in my family did a fraction of what I’ve shared here, I’d be wondering what the hell was wrong with them and making at least a small attempt to intervene.

I don’t even know who you are anymore.

She never did.  She never has.  She never will.  SIL needs serious help.  And it’s an absolute disgrace that this family hides her problems, behavior, sickness, and alcoholism and continues to let her self-destruct.  Worse, she’s going to hurt, maim, or kill someone.  It’s only a matter of time.  And then blood will not only be on her hands, but her family’s as well.  But… her family keeps bailing her ass out and totally ignoring just how sick she is.

That said, I know who she is.  You best believe this - every day these children are out of my custody - I pray that it isn’t their blood that ends up on her hands or anyone else’s in that family.

I used 2 tell [pew] he would nevdr hurt the boys but those days r gone.

No one gives a shit what she used to tell anyone.  I’m surprised with her substance abuse problems that she can even remember her name, let alone anything you alleged used to tell PEW about me.

Seriously - get some help before you kill yourself or worse - kill someone else.

We’ve occasionally discussed what we thought might happen should the website be discovered.  We’re pretty sure that any number of things might occur and we’re pretty convinced that none of them would be particularly good.

We often speculate what might occur…

• PEW would call CPS (again).
• Maybe get her dumbass father to leave us a nice voice-mail again so he can say things like “whore” and “slut” and be all tough-guy on our asses.
• PEW would call her normal brothers and see if they would beat me up on her behalf (despite them knowing how absolutely off-the-chain both PEW and Psycho-SIL are).
• Threaten court (again).
• She would project all of her self-hatred outward onto me (again).
• She’ll definitely “tell my dad” on me.  My dad, not her dad.
• She’ll tell others in my family.
• Maybe she might send an email, that might look like this:

LM,

I have decided that tomorrow I am sending a letter to [CSE] asking them to terminate your child support payments to me. Then I am taking the entire contents of your www.thepsychoexwife.com website to court with me….I’m asking for an emergency hearing…because you have lost it. The whole scary thing is printed out, particularly the part where DW says she hates our kids…and they have social and behavioral problems…someday if they choose to be like me “they will have to go their own way”? I’m scared….this is scary…I’ve read it all and with every new article, it just got scarier. You are a scary scary individual….and DW is JUST as scary. You do not have to pay for the braces…..I did not realize how sick you actually were. I will pay for the braces by myself. I’m going to consult with a child psychologist and find out if the kids should know about this, because I can tell you…despite what they tell you, they are very loving and affectionate to me and I am to them as well….I’m thinking you and ugly have a big HATE expedition going on over there….it’s not healthy….and it’s weird since I granted you without a fight 50/50 custody…gave you a huge break on child support….I don’t even know who you’re talking about on that website, but it aint ME. Please don’t kill me….because as I was reading it that’s all I was thinking, you’re nuts. Keep your money…make love to it, wallpaper with it….make a loin cloth out of it….use it for psychotherapy (highly recommended) just stay the fuck away from me.

This is the last email you will ever receive from me.

you’re sick…. PEW

Well… that’s what I imagine it would look like if just such a discovery were to occur.  And if just such an email would actually be the result, I might be inclined to have the following thoughts based upon quotes from just such an email:

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We take a pause in the Psycho-SIL criminal series for more pressing matters.  Also, because we still are waiting on several other reports.  I’ve previously written about this situation being all about the money - at least the power it has to make one’s life very, very difficult.  She tends to wield this power with impunity.

She applied more pressure on 8/14/09:

LM,

I’m making an appt today for S1 to get his first round of spacers. I will then submit the bill to DR for your half. You’re too much.

~PEW

This is a big problem. Whether anyone who frequents this blog chooses to believe it or not, I don’t have half of the $5,000 fee at the moment and S1’s teeth and palate will survive until I can get a job. People have survived since the dawn of time with crooked teeth. I want S1 to get his braces. He will get them when we get the financial situation righted.

If PEW is permitted to forge ahead unchallenged in this regard, it will only set us back further in a situation where we can ill-afford to be. Therefore, I felt compelled to reply, respectfully, and factually…

PEW,

Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am unable to agree with moving forward so soon on S1’s braces. You cannot make such decisions unilaterally as per the court order.

Sincerely,
LM

That was all I intended to say. This isn’t emergency medical treatment. It WILL get done. It does NOT need to get done “right now.” There are more important things at stake here, not that PEW can think beyond how much more quickly she can make life tougher on everyone. It’s not like dental care for the children was a priority for her before (see: Pearly Whites). Notice a pattern here? When I am under financial strain - she will go to great lengths to find ways to put additional pressure on me. The last dentistry issue arose during my layoff in 2007. I’m guessing you’re not shocked.

LM,

What?!?!? This is a medical necessity…have you looked at your son’s teeth. He is going to get abcesses in there. Where does the court order say that I do not have to get our children medical attention when it is needed?

~PEW

Here’s a mother who couldn’t be bothered to take the kids to the orthodontist, instead calling me at the very last minute on the day of their appointment with a bullshit excuse. She wasn’t at the appointment. She hasn’t even spoken with the orthodontist (at the time the email exchange took place), and like I’ve mentioned before - she has S1 perilously close to death as a result of my predicament. She does this with no basis to make the assumptions she has in the above email showing how terrified she is.

At the time of the appointment, the orthodontist expressed the following information:

• The sooner it is done, the better for S1.
• He can get braces at any time.
• It wasn’t needed IMMEDIATELY, but if we wanted him to get used to them by the time school starts, we should move sooner rather than later.  It’s especially good at this age up to and including early teen years due to the softness of the palate and the ease of getting the teeth, palate, and jaw to move.

Keep in mind, that even the dentist made NO MENTION of the perilous fears about S1’s single crooked molar.  It is substantially out of place.  It wasn’t until I brought up the tooth that the dentist (one SHE chose) even thought to consider referring us to an orthodontist.

LM,

and by the way the circumstances are within your control….get a job.  Just because you refuse to get a job doesn’t mean the kids have to suffer.

~PEW

See: Rolleyes eyestrain. Unmerciful, cold-hearted, uncaring, CLICHE-SPEWING black-heart. Nevermind how the children are suffering while she takes $400/month from our household while she continues with her cycle of terror. She’s incapable of thinking of the children when there is an opportunity to ramp-up the drama.

LM,

I can’t believe you are going to risk losing legal custody over what amounts to be $2500 spread out over two years. Are you serious? I’m ok with this because you have left a 5 year paper trail of how you put your financial gain in front of the children….this is great especially on the heals of your child support fiasco….perfect timing LM.

~PEW

Cue the custody and support threats. So very predictable.

The reason this is a problem is because no matter what we agree to “off the books” or what the Orthodontist promises, etc.  If PEW incurs any expenses, all she has to do is turn it into to CSE and it gets the ball rolling.  Ultimately, that means more court, more legal fees, more waste, more abuse-by-legal-system.

If I thought for one second she would agree to take the 1st-half of the payments and relegate me to the last half of the payments - that could work.  As much I wish I had a job already, that would buy me another half-year (minimum) to get the job and take care of business.  However, after all of this - would you trust the PEW under just such an arrangement, knowing all she would have to do is turn the receipts in to CSE and all bets are off?

T’was a busy end of the week and weekend.  Still, I managed to squeeze in a little editing time so that we can continue from Part I - Big Confrontations.  It took a while with some technical problems, but FINALLY, it’s done.

In today’s Part II, I offer you the voice mail from Psycho-FIL.  His was actually the second of two calls from the family.  You’ll have to forgive the horrible audio, I did the best I could without reading any instructions for the editing software.  Accompanying the sound file is a transcript of the call.  Obviously, I chose to edit out names and places to protect the innocent and the guilty.  Those edits are in brackets in the transcript.  I believe following along will make “hearing” everything that is said much, much easier.

TRANSCRIPT:

Hello, [LM], it’s [Jack Ass]. Umm, I just wanted to get in touch with you because I think it’s gonna be in your best interests to do what you’re supposed to. Uh, I spent the best part of this morning, eh, in correspondence with both the DA’s office in [Montecristo] County, where PEW lives, and also in [Bolivar] County. And you are already in violation of the abuse order that you brought against her because it was a mutual consent decree by the court. And also, eh, you are guilty of harassment by communication, both you and the whore that you live with. And I think it’s in your best interests to bring those children home. If not, by Monday morning there will be a warrant out for you and her because you have them in custody. The court order says 1 weekend, uh, every other week and three weeks during the summer. [PEW] lived up to her obligation. If they’re not home by tomorrow at the time that it’s due, you’re gonna be arrested and she’s gonna be arrested. And if either one of you communicate to her by email or phone, there’s gonna be, there, it’s a violation of the order again so somebody’s gonna be locked up. And I’m telling you, in your own best interest, the best thing you can do is to bring those children back when they are supposed to be back. Or you’re in violation of false custody here. So, uh, I don’t know what kind of slut that it is that you live with but for her to call my daughter and to give her, you are both sociopaths, you both need serious, serious help. And if you think by moving to [your state] you can hide from the long arm of the law, you’ve got another thing coming. You are already in violation of the communication codes and federal laws and now you’re gonna violate a custody court case which was mandated, and you’re gonna be arrested. I’m telling you. If you go to jail, you’re gonna be a very sorry individual ‘cause she’ll be with you in another prison. I’m telling you, you got a warning. And this is it, it’s not a threat, it’s a warning. Because I’ve already spoke to all the authorities and you’re in total violation if they’re not back tomorrow at due time. You pick them up, you drop them off, that’s been the standing deal.

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I can’t explain it.  I still laugh when I listen to it because he sounds like a complete moron.  Between the stammering and him tossing out “legal lingo” that doesn’t even make any sense (if it even exists at all), I can’t help but think that this was all just an excuse for him to call DW a “whore” and a “slut” and that was the entire purpose of the call. Besides that, NONE of it was true.

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree now, does it.  Threats.  Bullying.  Name-calling.  Bullshitting.  It’s genetic!

Some observations (aside from what I’ve cited just above):

• He probably wasn’t in touch with anyone.  And, had he called Montecristo County, they wouldn’t have given him the time of day because that’s not the county with jurisdiction over the case.
• How am I in violation of the abuse order when PEW called our home?  (You’ll notice how he says “called my daughter.”  Uh, no… your daughter called us and initiated everything, including the discussion with DW and putting Kevin on the phone, t’boot.
• A mutual consent decree by the court?  He wasn’t there.  He didn’t have a copy of the restraining order.  That’s just a lot of “legal language” (that doesn’t even make sense) to make himself sound important and menacing.  The restraining order was against PEW.
• WTF is “harassment by communication?”  How can you not laugh at this?
• I eagerly awaited the “warrant” that all of these authorities allegedly told him would be issued for our arrests.  It never came.
• WTF is being guilty of “false custody?”
• Did he really say, “The Long Arm of  the Law?”
• How exactly is DW going to be “with me” - while in “another prison?”
• Look at me, I’m in violation of “communication codes” and “federal law” and “false custody” and “harassment by communication” and a “court custody case” because “it’s been mandated.”

What an asshole.  What a blowhard.  He hadn’t talked to anyone that said any such thing, proven by the fact that PEW drove her fat ass down to our state and picked up the kids, no charges filed, no cops showing up on our door, no prison. Huh, who woulda thought after that lovely phone call with so many “warnings”?

Part 3 = Psycho-SIL’s Voice Mail