I'm watching an episode of a tv series called 'Breaking Bad'. It's not really what I logged in here to write about, but it's ended up being on the telly in front of me and it's pretty gripping. It's one of those shows that I can't help but watch. My ten year old son hates it. My partner and I find that really interesting ... he will play violent video games quite happily, but this show, which is violent in a very real and gritty sense, but which is also darkly humorous, my son finds terrifying.
Anyway - what else is going on for me? I had a pretty serious falling out with the father of my son during the week. Usually I do my best to keep the peace between us for the sake of making my son's life good. This week though, some things finally got to me, and I finally cracked. There had just been one too many demands for more money and too few equivalent contributions for items like clothing.
Sadly, when I crack, I crack. I didn't handle the situation that well I suppose. I don't like being hung up on, over and over again. In the end I went to visit my ex, knowing that my son was at a friends for a play for the afternoon. When I got there, he indicated that he did not want to talk. I said that we needed to, that he needed to listen to me, that there were things that we needed to sort out. He said "you are angry, go away, I don't want to talk to you now, today". I refused to leave. He threatened to call the police if I did not. I told him go ahead.
Obviously, once a conversation starts going down those roads, it's not going anywhere good. Anyway - my ex went out on his veranda and made a call on his mobile phone and then left the house. Before he left he said to me: "you'd better leave before the police get here". I thought about it and figured that leaving when the police are on there way to get you is not a good move from a 'criminal action' perspective, though I don't really know. I've never had a whole lot to do with the law. I did hear my ex give my name, date of birth and address over the phone though, so I made a cup of tea and stuck around.
I sat on the deck with my cup of tea and waited. I sipped my tea and I waited. I finished my tea, and the police had still not arrived so I phoned my ex (location uncertain) and asked how long the police had said they'd be. He sounded angry and said they had not been specific. I didn't want to spend my whole evening waiting, so I called the local police station and enquired. They said they didn't have any call logged about me at all. The officer on the phone got a bit annoyed and said: "do you want to log a call or not?". At that stage, I thought, OK .... lets go with this. My lying, passive aggressive, bully boy ex wants to play head games, lets go with this. I told them that they'd better come on over as my ex was adamant that he'd called them to make a complaint about me.
Anyway - things have settled down a bit since then. We've got a draft parenting plan that we are working on and there seems to be some boundaries back in place. I don't know where it will go from here, but hopefully, hopefully ... not all to shit.
The guys on Breaking Bad are brewing poison out of beans now, to deal with a drug dealer who they want to get rid of. I don't think my situation will get to that.
Anyway - what else is going on for me? I had a pretty serious falling out with the father of my son during the week. Usually I do my best to keep the peace between us for the sake of making my son's life good. This week though, some things finally got to me, and I finally cracked. There had just been one too many demands for more money and too few equivalent contributions for items like clothing.
Sadly, when I crack, I crack. I didn't handle the situation that well I suppose. I don't like being hung up on, over and over again. In the end I went to visit my ex, knowing that my son was at a friends for a play for the afternoon. When I got there, he indicated that he did not want to talk. I said that we needed to, that he needed to listen to me, that there were things that we needed to sort out. He said "you are angry, go away, I don't want to talk to you now, today". I refused to leave. He threatened to call the police if I did not. I told him go ahead.
Obviously, once a conversation starts going down those roads, it's not going anywhere good. Anyway - my ex went out on his veranda and made a call on his mobile phone and then left the house. Before he left he said to me: "you'd better leave before the police get here". I thought about it and figured that leaving when the police are on there way to get you is not a good move from a 'criminal action' perspective, though I don't really know. I've never had a whole lot to do with the law. I did hear my ex give my name, date of birth and address over the phone though, so I made a cup of tea and stuck around.
I sat on the deck with my cup of tea and waited. I sipped my tea and I waited. I finished my tea, and the police had still not arrived so I phoned my ex (location uncertain) and asked how long the police had said they'd be. He sounded angry and said they had not been specific. I didn't want to spend my whole evening waiting, so I called the local police station and enquired. They said they didn't have any call logged about me at all. The officer on the phone got a bit annoyed and said: "do you want to log a call or not?". At that stage, I thought, OK .... lets go with this. My lying, passive aggressive, bully boy ex wants to play head games, lets go with this. I told them that they'd better come on over as my ex was adamant that he'd called them to make a complaint about me.
Anyway - things have settled down a bit since then. We've got a draft parenting plan that we are working on and there seems to be some boundaries back in place. I don't know where it will go from here, but hopefully, hopefully ... not all to shit.
The guys on Breaking Bad are brewing poison out of beans now, to deal with a drug dealer who they want to get rid of. I don't think my situation will get to that.
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