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Don't have all the deets, but apparently one of my step-nieces was put in a crisis center.
It's been tough sledding for my BIL's kids. Their mom is a fuck-up. She was basically trying to live off the alimony money after he divorced her, and once that dried up, she apparently had a breakdown or something, and started using drugs.
So the kids went from a 50/50 split custody sitch to BIL has full custody and the kids barely see their mom. Add that to the pandemic nonsense, and this girl going from 8th grade to high school this year, and she's had a lot going on in the last few years.
Apparently it wasn't to the level of finding her in the bathtub with razor cuts, so hopefully it's something that she can get a handle on and get past.
It's been tough sledding for my BIL's kids. Their mom is a fuck-up. She was basically trying to live off the alimony money after he divorced her, and once that dried up, she apparently had a breakdown or something, and started using drugs.
So the kids went from a 50/50 split custody sitch to BIL has full custody and the kids barely see their mom. Add that to the pandemic nonsense, and this girl going from 8th grade to high school this year, and she's had a lot going on in the last few years.
Apparently it wasn't to the level of finding her in the bathtub with razor cuts, so hopefully it's something that she can get a handle on and get past.
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Yeah, apparently the straw that broke the camel's back for the kids was that she fell asleep behind the wheel driving them somewhere and crashed. Don't think she was high at the time, but it could have been an after-effect of her using. The older daughter went to her counselor or someone like that, and that basically put the kibosh on her being able to see the kids as much as she had been (I think she got them like every other weekend or something after the first breakdown). Now it's like a few hours at a time, maybe once a month or something.
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I hate to hear it.
I'm a softy when it comes to kids. They shouldn't have to deal with that kind of shit.
Yeah, it sucks for them, for sure. I think the youngest has a lot of resentment towards her dad, and views some things through the lens of "it's his fault that mommy and daddy aren't together". The official story (I believe him, have no reason to believe otherwise) is that their mom slept with the neighbors' adult kid, and my now-BIL got to keep the house, and she moved out.
We were there a few weeks ago, and the youngest said a few things about how the house was "home" to her, which I hadn't heard her say before. I think she's coming to grips with her mom being a fuck-up, and it's kinda flipped her worldview a bit.
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After hearing about the car crash (was she in it as well?) I would think it did in fact open up her eyes a little bit
Yeah, the mom was driving and went off the road.
Both kids were in the car. I think the mom was taking them back to my BIL's house when that happened.
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Scary stuff right there. Though as you get older you see things in a different light and see things for what they truly are so I am sure that is why she is coming to the realization that her dad isn't the one to blame here
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