Hi everyone!
Posted: February 28th, 2012, 9:46 am
Sorry I seemed to have dropped off the earth; funny, I feel like I did.
Briefly, my daughter went through a hard period beginning about 2 years ago related to the POS she married. Last February she had some legal problems and had a nervous breakdown. She was diagnosed as bipolar (I've known it for years but no one would listen to me.) In the process of all this her two children were placed in foster care (the dad didn't want them and the court wouldn't place them with either set of grandparents.) She (my daughter) is on meds, she went to counselling, she did everything she was supposed to do to get her kids back. IMO she was never abusive or neglectful; the kids were always well fed, groomed and clean, and very loving and were developing normally.
On December 17 the court permanently removed the kids. I felt like, and still feel like my heart was ripped out. There is another issue here that I'm not going to get into, but words like "outrage" and "depression" aren't strong enough. Death is bad enough, but how do you grieve this?
In January my son married; last week my daughter became engaged to a very nice young man we've all known for almost 10 years and watched grow from a young teenager. It seems like the sun is finally shining a bit.
I feel like you're all a bit of family here. Sorry I haven't kept in touch.
Briefly, my daughter went through a hard period beginning about 2 years ago related to the POS she married. Last February she had some legal problems and had a nervous breakdown. She was diagnosed as bipolar (I've known it for years but no one would listen to me.) In the process of all this her two children were placed in foster care (the dad didn't want them and the court wouldn't place them with either set of grandparents.) She (my daughter) is on meds, she went to counselling, she did everything she was supposed to do to get her kids back. IMO she was never abusive or neglectful; the kids were always well fed, groomed and clean, and very loving and were developing normally.
On December 17 the court permanently removed the kids. I felt like, and still feel like my heart was ripped out. There is another issue here that I'm not going to get into, but words like "outrage" and "depression" aren't strong enough. Death is bad enough, but how do you grieve this?
In January my son married; last week my daughter became engaged to a very nice young man we've all known for almost 10 years and watched grow from a young teenager. It seems like the sun is finally shining a bit.
I feel like you're all a bit of family here. Sorry I haven't kept in touch.
