what should I do about my family disowning me over this and not losing my daughter forever too?
ByQuestion: Here’s a little history,am hoping someone can help me and help me to make sense of everything.I am 30 years old.I have a 13 year old daughter that my father and my step-mother have custody of and have had since my daughter was 2 months old.I had lost custody because when I was 17 and living with my mother,my mother screamed at my baby,so badly I screamed at my mother that threw me out.I was still in school,my mother had forced me to marry at 15 since my mother didn’t want me and also too,to escape abuse. My daughter’s father had walked out on us,and so I had noway to take care of a baby or anywhere else to go. My father and step-mother took in my daughter.Well my step-mother’s son when I was 14 raped me ,he died from an OD about 9 years ago,and when I told my family about it,my step mother that was in denial about it all, she threw me out and hasn’t allowed my dad to have a relationship with me and that includes not allowing me there to see my daughter,which I have visitation rights to.
Every time I talk to my daughter on the phone, she is very nasty to me,to the point I cry every time I hang up with her. My daughter has said horrible rumors about me,which aren’t true,that either my father or step-mother are telling her.I have told my daughter, I plan to go to court to make them enforce visitation,because now I am in a financial situation to be able to do so,where in the past I wasn’t..My daughter has said, she wants nothing to do with me and I know it’s from them turning her against me.
Well a month ago,my mother that lives with my brother,his wife and 2 kids,kept screaming and cussing my 2 year old nephew,telling him she hates him and hitting him over and over just for staring at her.She went on a good 10 minutes screaming and hitting him for that,which I finally talked her into walking away,that my husband heard it on speaker phone and my husband told me,we need to call social services. I didn’t want to go that route, but I have seen my mom be down right mean to my nephew once before and had tried talking sense into her and it did no good.
My husband brought up a point to me that,if I didn’t call social services,that if anything bad happened to my nephew,ie, mental problems or to be hurt physically hurt, that we’d never forgive ourselves.So we called social services and the social worker that went there to investigate the situation,couldn’t find anything wrong because they waited a week to respond after us reporting it.Anyhow, the social worker gave the time frame it had been reported and infurred so many things,my mother knew it was me.She changed her phone number,has diwonwed me and I called my father today and he said he is disowning me too because supposedly my daughter got a 15 page letter of me bad mouthing my father and I truly haven’t written anything,which leads me to believe,my mother had to of done it.
She has turned my siblings against me and apparently my father even more so and I sit here and cry,wondering where I went wrong.When I tried to explain to my dad there was never any letter from me,he got nasty and said,your whole family disowns you.He said,that’s just the way life goes. I am sad because my daughter hates me due to what my father has allowed my step-mom to do for 13 years.They have never allowed my daughter to write or call me.
You know I have forgiven my family for a lot.My mother and father knew my grandfather was sexually abusing me as a child and never did anything about it.My dad that use to be an alcoholic, beat my siblings and I daily and my mother left us kids and my dad when I was 11 to be with the man she had an affair with. There was never any discipline as far as them allowing my 2 older brothers to beat me daily,to the pont of breaking my bones, almost putting my eye out,or beating me daily and leaving bruises. However,I am not angry because I realize they’ve got their share of problems, but I am truly sad,because although I have forgiven everything and never once threw their faults in their face, they’re so hurtful to me,and I wish I knew what more to do.
Yes it’;s a toxic relationship that I should let go of,but is so hard when they’ve got my child. By the way, the judge did a court order for my dad to get custody,I fought it for 6 years but the judge denied me getting her back, due to the fact I wasn’t making enough money to support us both. After 6 years, I thought I could wait for my daughter to go to court and tell the judge herself and fight for better visitation if she wanted to stay there.However,I never would’ve thought in a million years they would not allow me there and to have turned her against me.Please someone can you offer good advice?Thank you
wow,I have never in my life done drugs,nor did I allow for him to get custody but the judge granted him the custody. Wow, so judgmental and quick to throw insults to me,when sometimes it’s cards that are delt at you.And maybe my life did suck,but I am improving it but thank you for such insults and judgment







4 Comments
February 1st, 2010 at 6:08 am
Omg, wow. This is a horrible story and I’m sorry this happened to you! I wouldn’t know what exactly to tell you. I’d have to know you and see you in person. All I can tell you is I was abused by family member years ago and am still suffering from it and trying to heal.
However, I’m surprised you put all this private information here on Yahoo! Very brave of you. I’m sorry you were disowned but I suppose the only thing you can do is just go about your life and not worry about it. I know family is supposed to support you and love you but if everyone has been that cruel, there is absolutely nothing you can do but try to find your own happiness any way that you can.
-Good luck!
February 1st, 2010 at 6:27 am
WOW your life suck, but if that is all true, then knowing that your dad is an alcoholic, and child abuse why would you even allow for him to take your baby at 2months no way you must have been a drug addict or something and now you are clean or something this just don’t make sense and if your mom is the way she is why don’t you take video of the way they are to that poor innocent child your brother should stop your mom from hitting his kid, I don’t know if I believe this or I just don’t want to believe that there are people let alone a hole family like this its sad you need to keep calling social service they need to take that kid out of there before its too late. and for you, because you gave your dad custody of your daughter and knowing what you know I just can’t be on your side. I feel sorry for you and for the poor kids involved and brought up in a messed up world that you provided when choosing to have a kid when you where just a kid also.. I will pray for the kids involved but good luck for you and your future..
February 1st, 2010 at 6:34 am
Well first of all I would like to say that I a sorry that you had to go through them things and I emphasize with you. I had a similar situation happen to me, but not with my family disowning me. It was my daughter’s grandmother who had custody of my daughter. I was also molested by a family member, but I forgave them for it. In order for me to have a piece of mind.
I had my child when I was very young. When my child was 7 or 8 years old she went to live with her grandmother due to some difficulties that I had at the time. Anyways, I use to go by and see my daughter, write to her, and call her. I never knew in a million years that her grandmother was turning my daughter against me, by telling lies. She made me look like a monster. I wondered why every time I went to see her, she had this look on her face that showed she did not want to be with me. She even wrote a letter and said she did not want to stay with me. After 8 grueling years with this going back and forth, I decided to file for visitations.
After going to court 3 or 4 times I finally got the visitation that I always wanted with her. At first things was a little rocky with me and her, but after a while she seen what kind of person that I was and we have been close every since. We are like best friends and we talk to each other about everything. She told me that her grandmother was putting things in her head about me and was trying to turn her against me.
The reason why I am telling you this is to tell you to NEVER GIVE UP HOPE about you and your daughter. Things can change between you and her in the future. If someone had told me back then that me and my daughter would be like we are today (best friends) I would of thought that they was lying. The strange thing is that my daughter told me how she use to treat her. It was bad. She told me that she use to always put a smile on her face when I seen her because her grandmother wanted it to look like everything was fine. My daughter is 19 years old now and she prefers to have nothing to do with her grandmother. She has little contact with her grandmother. I hope things work out for the best for you and whatever you do..DON’T GIVE UP HOPE. Good Luck
February 1st, 2010 at 6:36 am
My dear you seem to have gone through so much and a lot has happen along the way,This is an awfull lot to think about, how to help you I will try honey but first off I have to tell you to please love your self first, you feel unloved and I see why but you have to love your self because that is the first step, if you do not love your self you are no good to get your head together, Lets take a few steps here and along the way together we all here at YA can come up with some help for you. Now I believe you need help and a lot of it, your first part to starting to recover is taking the time to talk with some one with in a church, May it be a out reach program or to join a church where you can go to and find the good people that are there to help you they need to get you on a good leveal of thinking before you are able to work on getting any where near you daughter, I believe with talking and getting the support of people who will care and respect you is the most important thing for you and now, That part of life you have been with out needs to be filled, after all to love your daughter and her to love you she has to see the good, You can not expect her to just know you love her she has to see the love and to do that you need to be a diffrent person all together,And when you are around people who love you she will know and the family that has her now is taking all that away so you have to show her how wrong they are about you, believe me good people in your life will be a good feeling for you and you need that Things will not happen over night for you there is a lot to do and the church will be the most filling for you.Take the time to stand strong aganist those who are bringing you down and also get together with social services ask for help with this also that is what they are there for to keep familes together, ask and keep with it its up to you to be the better person then what your family has taught you, I wish I could just give you a big hug well gee I will send you one feel that!!??? You will get a lot of those once you start loving your self and fighting back with love to get to your daughter now go and get them show them who the mother of this child really is I am betting on you to do it and know I will win so here is to you girl take what you learn here from others and we will hope it all works out for you GOOD LUCK!!