Saturday, April 25, 2009

P.A. AWARENESS DAY

Remember today is Parental Awareness Day !

You might have heard that it is also Malaria Awareness Day, not to lessen the importance of that at all, as there are countless people affected by that disease.

However if you live in the U.S.A., chances are much more likely to personally know a person that is affected by Parental Alienation. Someone you work with, your neighbor, your friend.

Hopefully some day they can cancel the National Awareness Day when we are all set free from this "un-disease"......called Parental Alienation and focus on real diseases like malaria !

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

The Big Book


This is The Big Book !
This collection of paperwork has come from the past 8 years of living in the darkness of Parental Alienation. It's a longgggg sadddd story ! The documentation shows so much of what has transpired since 2001. But it does not show the toll taken on the lives of the people involved in this situation.
Half of Rinda' s life has occurred since 2001. It has aged my husband and I beyond our years and I'm sure that it has taken a toll on the Alienating Parent, Rinda's mom. When a battle like this occurs NO ONE WINS.....we all lose.
We all lose more than we can ever regain. I guess that is one of the cruel jokes played on all of us that are affected by P.A.

Friday, April 10, 2009

Attorney: A Four Letter Word ????

Let me ask you, IS the word, attorney a four letter word in your house? How about the word, lawyer?

At our house it is !
We just refer to it as the A-word or the L-word. The very mention of the Family Court System and it's many players causes the tension level to rise in our home. We weren't always this way. My husband used to the be poster boy for "trusting the system". He truly believed that if you do the right thing and you follow all the rules that it will all work out. It's been a hard lesson for him to learn. At this stage, after 8 years, he is now what I consider to be a non-believer regarding the whole legal system. He has lost all hope that there is an attorney/lawyer out there that will actually care about our daughter's life and future. He no longer believes in the system.

I, on the other hand NEVER DID..... My background gave me early experiences to understand the failure of the family court system to rule in the best interest of the child. I was the one 8 years ago that said that ATTORNEY IS A FOUR LETTER WORD....one of the most offensive, vulgar words in the dictionary. But as life has a funny way of switching things around, I am now on a major mission to find the RIGHT ONE.....attorney that is. I know that there HAS TO BE a person that is practicing law in the State of Texas that CAN and WILL help us. So, I've been researching, calling, emailing and setting up appointments with attorneys in the city in which our daughter lives. Being out of state, does make it a bit more challenging but by no means impossible.

After spending three days interviewing attorneys in the city. I am exhausted. Driving back home, I had a lot of time to think about it. I wanted to narrow it down to the best 3 so that my husband can re-interview the final three to pick one. Unfortunately I couldn't even pick three that I thought MIGHT BE THE ONE. I have only two lined up for him to see. Hopefully one of those two WILL BE THE ONE.

AGAIN, Anyone with any suggestions for an attorney in the Dallas/Ft.Worth area ????

This will be our final round....We plan to put all our chips on one number, spin the wheel and let it ride...... Wish us luck, I am sure that we will need it.

Thursday, April 9, 2009

One Year Later...... "FOURTEEN MONTHS"

It's been exactly one year since I first posted on Rindas2mom blog. I can't fully explain why, after making the original post I decided to "go private again" and go back to keeping my journal instead of posting it on the blog. Many factors influenced my decision, however, I'm back and I ready to tell our whole, long, sad, excruciating story.

TODAY...... is April 9, 2009 and we are STILL trying to legally intervene while my stepdaughter's life continues to spiral out of control. This is my second trip to the city this year. I am on a shopping spree....shopping for ANOTHER attorney. I carry with me a EXTRA LARGE 3 ring binder stuffed full of documents and information relating to this case. I've found that consulting with 2 or 3 lawyers a day and having to re-tell the same sad story over and over IS TOTALLY EXHAUSTING, physically and mentally.

TODAY.....April 9, 2009 is exactly FOURTEEN MONTHS ( 1 4 M O N T H S ) until Rinda will turn 18 years old. As we know all too well, that when she turns 18 that we will no longer be able to LEGALLY INTERVENE.

With only 14 months left of her "childhood" we have now missed 1/2 ( half) of her life. Half of her entire life has been spent in the darkness of parental alienation. If you know anything about the effects of PA, then you realize that if nothing changes, that she will still be dealing with the effects of this issue long after her Dad and I are dead and gone. We will never give up, but time is running out for our legal intervention.

IF YOU CAN RECOMMEND AN ATTORNEY IN THE DALLAS\FT. WORTH METRO AREA THAT SPECIALIZES IN CASES OF PARENTAL ALIENATION..........please let me know. Also good luck to you and your loved ones !