Just wondering if anyone can help steer me in the right direction.

My mum has depression/anxiety. Like really big problems. Psychiatric hospitals/overdoses/police being called all of these are a regular occurence. I am 38 and have 2 children (6 & 7). She has been sick for a long time. She divorced my dad, and whilst my dad and siblings are supportive, as her daughter I wear the brunt of it. This weekend she has told me she cant cope with being a mother anymore and is ‘retiring’. Those words felt like a sledgehammer, but i kept it together to get thru my husbands birthday, kids sleep overs. Its Sunday night and i guess I am just feeling it now.

Are there support groups out there for me? I am having trouble ‘processing’ it all. Coping with it. I mean my day to day life will proceed, i have the kids and work etc etc, but there is a hole in my heart, a sadness that is unending. I wish I had someone who understood.

My boyfriend turned out to be gay but was "hoping I wouldn’t mind". o_o. Does anyone have some tips on how to recover quickly from a breakup when you don’t have any friends or siblings to talk to or hangout with? I’m a 22 year old female.

Not marriage counseling, counseling for the whole family, all siblings and both parents.

I HAVE A CORRUPT LAWYER AND A CORRUPT BROTHER WHO HAS STOLEN MY ASSETS TO MY PARENTS ESTATE AND HE HAS TAKEN EVERYTHING I HAVE MY LAWYER HAS LET THIS ESTATE MATTER CONTINUE FOR 6 YRS NOW AND IT HAS COST ME EVERYTHING THAT WAS TO BE DEVIDED EQUALLY BETWEEN US THREE KIDS ONE OF MY SIBLINGS DIED AFTER MY PARENTS. NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN MY LAWYER KNOWS NOTHING OF THE DIVISION OF PROPERTY. I HAVE NOW TAKEN MEASURES AND CONTACTED THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF MISS AND THE JUDGES COMPLAINT AND NOW I AM NEEDING TO GO TO THE MEDIA AS NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE EXCEPT ALL MY ASSETS AND MONIES HAVE BEEN STRIPPED I NEED TO TALK TO A LAWYER ABOUT THIS AS I NEED HELP

Fortunately for me and my child aswell as my siblings none of us were ever in a custody battle.
Yet, has anyone ever been involved in this and what was your experience?

My parents have been married over 30 years but my father was married before. I obviously have no first hand knowledge of their relationship before but I have heard while married they fought constantly. Growing up they were very nice to each other. My father often did handy man stuff around her house. I have three half siblings from that marriage and they were married many many years so she was still invited to family affairs, birth days and reunions. (Like I was told once people get divorced not family) Her family was very far away and my dads family and her kids were the only people she had locally. My mother and her often sat together and talked and got along. They did not meet for lunch and weren’t best friends but if there was animosity I never ever saw it.

Here’s the scoop….I am 22 my fiance is 30. I am currently in medical and real estate and am making about 3x his income. I am planning on continuing my education and possibly opening a buisness with siblings in a few years. Also purchasing a home, possibly before we get married. I am thinking it might be a good idea to get a prenup, not because i see a divorce in our future, believe me i want this to last forever, but because tomorrow is not promised and i feel the need to protect all my hard work JUST IN CASE something was to go wrong. Now i know it’s something that probably hasnt even crossed his mind, so i am not sure if it would be offensive, especially since he’s a man. I know about pride. So basically what i am wondering about is, MEN please answer honestly, would you be offended in this situation??

My parents are divorced. They have joint legal custody over my siblings, 16 and 14. My mother have full physical custody. My siblings no longer want to live with my mother for various reasons and have been living with my father for the past 3 months. She will not agree to switch over custody. We want to stop child support. Can we filed for child support modification and child custody change?

Thanks for answering!!!

I am writing a reseach paper about the affects on children when their parents get divorced. I am going to interview children around the age of 10 and i need some good interview questions to help me understand the affects. can anyone help?
they kids i am interviewing are my own siblings.

I have 2 kids 5 year old girl and 3 year old boy, with my ex-wife. We have the Texas version of joint custody. I had them every weekend. She moved to Indiana yesterday with them. I can’t move because I don’t want to get behind on child support while trying to find a job up there.

My question is what is your opinion of me taking 1 of the kids and her keeping 1 of them. During the summer I would have both for 1 month then she would have both for 1 month also. We would be able to talk to each other anytime thanks to video chatting and also see each other on Christmas and Thanksgiving.

I grew up with 2 brothers and 1 sister. All we ever done was fight and none of us got along until we moved out of our moms house. I also have 4 other siblings on my fathers side I never knew. My mom and him split when I was young and I never seen him again. Based on my life I don’t really think it would be a bad idea. It would be much easier for my ex to take care of 1 and me taking care of 1 child. I tried everything to stop her from getting the divorce. But it still happened and I signed up to be a father not a part time father.

I can see the major reason for not wanting to split the kids up. They have already went through the divorce and don’t get to have their daddy comping home and playing with them all night. However I think it will be better for them in the long term because even though I pay my support she is struggling and this would be easier for her. Even though I would have have 1 kid I would still have to pay her some support since I make more then her.

I love my kids with all my heart and they just left yesterday. All I can do is cry thinking about how long it will be before I see them and hold them again. We spent our last day at Chucky E. Cheese’s and cuddled on the couch eating popcorn and watching movies.

I HAVE NOT TALKED TO HER ABOUT THIS YET. I would just like advice from parents that have done this. And like I said me and my siblings get along great now compared to when we was growing up.
mamamoon

She don’t get a say when it comes to child support falling behind. The state will come after me regardless of what she wants to let me do. And our divorce decree says she gets to choose where they live regardless of location. To stop her from moving I would have had to hire a lawyer but that wasn’t possible at the rates they wanted to charge and I only had 5 days notice that she was moving.