Rindas2mom: E I G H T E E N

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

E I G H T E E N

E - enthusiasm: for life and everything that it holds in store for your future. esteem: to know how valuable you are & to be able to regard other with respect. eccentricity: to have the courage to be different when the world tells you that you must follow the path that is considered to be the norm. enlightenment: to give you a wide variety of knowledge, contentment & spiritual guidance.

I - intuition: to know what is right for yourself & others. idealism: so that you can set goals & strive toward them. identity: I hope you find your early. imagination: so that your thoughts will be original & really yours.
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G - gratitude: to always be thankful & really know how to appreciate life's many blessings, which often are concealed in a disguise of tribulation. giddiness: to be able to be silly when the situation calls for it. genuineness: to be real in a world that reward imitations. grit: to be tough enough to take care of yourself others in a dangerous world. gentleness: to be able to enjoy the kind, sweet moments in life without fear of being regarded as weak.

H - happiness: the real kind, that dwells in your mind, body & soul. The kind that no one can take away from you, the kind that you will be able to share with others. health: to be able to live a long life with good physical health, mental health & emotional health. Your health will determine your ability to enjoy all the other aspects of life. hardiness: to be able to survive & even thrive under potentially unfavorable conditions. harmony: to be able to live in peace with yourself as well as others.

T - time: to grow & learn while you still have the shelter of your home & your family. tenderness: so that you can be soft & loving without embarrassment. tolerance: for this world & the people in it that you really don't understand. thankfulness: for all that you have & all that you receive, even for the world around you.

E - existence: which your parents gave you 18 years ago. experience: this we must let you earn for yourself although we will gladly share with you what we've earned. eagerness: with which to meet this new world which you are entering as an adult.

E - empathy: so that you can put yourself in the other person's shoes & understand what they are feeling. emotion: don't be afraid of your emotions, but do learn to control them. equality: so that you may never be discriminated against.

N - nerve: of the good old bull-dog variety, so that you will never be afraid of life & of standing up for what you believe in. nonchalance: so that no one will be able to see how scared you are at times, as you go out into this big ole world.

THESE ARE JUST A FEW OF THE GOOD THINGS I WISH FOR YOU NOW ON YOUR 18TH BIRTHDAY AND ALWAYS. MAY ALL OF YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE.
WITH ALL MY LOVE, eoo

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Rindas 2 Mom said...: I included this in Rinda's birthday card, which I mailed yesterday. I don't know if she will even open the envelope so I wrote loving little notes all over the envelope including our phone number....for "someday, just in case" situations.; June 2, 2010 at 1:19 PM

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A Summary of Events

1999-2001 Rinda, her dad & I had a very happy life together.We were very bonded as a family unit & enjoyed our time together. We lived, loved, laughed together. We had Spaghetti night on Wednesdays. We hung a photo of Rinda's mother in Rinda's bedroom. Rinda was an exceptional child. She was sweet, smart, funny and beautiful. She did not have a problem in the world. She was just a little girl that loved BOTH her mother and her father. She was a joy and blessing to our lives until Parental Alienation destroyed our relationship and destroyed her ability to love, trust and respect her Dad & I.

2001- 2010 Rinda's mother sent us official notice that she was relocating Rinda to the West Coast to live, which broke our hearts. We made the decison to move away solely based on that lie. Later, we discovered that her mother had moved her to a new school a few miles from her old school. We would have NEVER gave up our weekends with Rinda....NEVER...EVER. We began having "lunch visits" with Rinda every Thursday. Over the years we have had several lawyers, which were hired to "fix" the problem of being denied access to Rinda . When the judge ordered Access Facilitation to re-unite our family we were thrilled. When they refused to enforce the court order we were heart-broken again. Rinda was being told lies about us and about the situation BUT we never spoke against her mother, NEVER. We never spoke up to defend ourselves since we didn't want for Rinda to be put in the middle. Rinda was told to be afraid of us and that we would kidnap her and never let her see her mother again. She was told that we had abandoned her and moved away and had forgotten about her. She was also told that her dad NEVER paid child support, which was another lie. She was told that she didn't have dental insurance which was a lie also. During 4th, 5th and 6th grade, the only way we could see her was to have lunch at her school. The attorney said we shouldn't go back to her school until he got the situation worked out. I didn't see her face for all of 7th grade & by the last week 8th grade I decided to go against what the lawyer said. On 5-19-2006 I went to lunch during the last week of 8th grade. We took fotos, talked & laughed. She told me she loves me. She gave me her email address & we kept in touch for about 6 months, In Nov.2006, I went to have lunch with Rinda who was now in 9th grade. The school notified Rinda's mother & when they told Rinda her mother had been told of my visit, Rinda declined to see me....It was the first time ever that she EVER said she didn't want to see her Dad & I. That is when we learned that Rinda had kept our school lunch visits a secret from her mother since 2001. To this day, I have not seen Rinda's face since 5-19-2006. By 2007, Rinda began having problems at home and school. We have done everything in our power to help Rinda however, she and her mother have defied us at every turn. They have defied every court order and continue to do so.Her Dad has consulted with her school officials, her doctors and all the other professionals which had contact with Rinda & her problems. He had to push & push to get the school to file truancy after after she continually failed in school due to truancy. All the years we tried to get our visitation rights enforced, we were only asking the court to enforce the rights that we already had. On the advice of our most recent attorney we filed for full custody when Rinda was 16 years old. We were told that due to her poor attendance record, truancy, failure in school, legal problems as well as behavioral problems that we should be given the opportunity to intervene on Rinda's behalf, to get her back on the right track & hopefully salvage her high school career. Delay after delay, finally, a social study was ordered which proved EVERYTHING that we had been claiming for years to be TRUE. Rinda's life has been damaged due to PARENTAL ALIENATION, now, it is officially documented by the Family Court System for what ever that is worth. The social worker agrees that Rinda NEEDS to be reunited with her Dad, but....it's too late, since Family Court isn't set up to deal with situations such as ours. As a token, they ordered Rinda to attend counseling with her Dad, but she continues to defy that court order as well (she only attended 2 sessions) Now with her 18th birthday approaching, we have NO other (legal) recourse.....although no one will uphold the law and allow Rinda's Dad to exercise his rights as a father...he is being required to continue to pay child support which enables Rinda's downward spiral. After 4 yrs of high school Rinda will remain in 10th grade at the end of this school year, she should be graduating 6-8-2010. Her graduation date according to her school records is now 2012. In summary,"our" little girl was stolen from us, our heart have been held hostage since 2001, her childhood was hijacked and her life has been greatly damaged.

This is the bottom line......the system chewed us up and spit us out but the true victim of the system's failure is Rinda. Her life will never be the same. Our life will never be the same. What has been taken from her (and us) can never be replaced.

May God have mercy on our souls because no one else has shown us a single ounce of mercy. May God find a way to keep Rinda safe and somehow guide her life in a positive direction, because apparently it is now out of our hands !!!!

PARENTAL ALIENATION CASES SHOULD NOT BE IN FAMILY COURT THEY SHOULD BE DEALT WITH IN CRIMINAL COURT.