Ex Spouses Suck

How is that for a title?

I have an incredible disappearing Stanley. He doesn’t check in with the kids at all when he is off. But that is okay because it limits the communication I have to have with him. I do kind of feel bad for the kids though when they go 4 days without talking to their father.

I mean, is that okay?

My parents weren’t divorced but my dad traveled for business every week. I would go 4 days without talking to him often. And clearly I have father issues.

Look how I turned out?

Just kidding. Mostly I just hurl purse bricks at dumb people.

But Al’s ex-wife is a level of suck previously uncharted.


apologies to Kathy Bates

She calls and calls and calls. She nags and nags and nags. I keep thinking that he must be encouraging her in some way, there has to be secondary gain in it for her, but I have seen him ignore her and I’ve seen him respond in various ways, including, “I hate you! Don’t call me!” and the bitch still calls and calls and calls.

I have tried to help him with clinical advice on setting limits with difficult people. But it doesn’t seem to be working because she still calls and calls and calls. It is like her day isn’t complete unless she checks off the box on her ‘to do list’ which says: Make ex husband miserable. When he ignored her over the weekend she got him to respond to her with a ‘fake kid crisis’ and managed to keep him on the phone long enough to tell him that she tells the kids that they can’t live with him because he ‘can’t be inconvenienced’ with him.