Today, it's been 6 months since I last heard from my kid's mother. That's abandonment where I live. I don't know what to do. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, it's been a week since my mom left me at my auntie's, she just called to tell me she took a job abroad. I think I’m an abandoned orphan. FML
Today, I tried to contact my birth mother, who abandoned me when I was three weeks old. After months of tracing, I finally plucked up the courage to call her. She told me to "f*ck off and die". FML
Today, I went to pick up my long-distance boyfriend at the airport. It has been over six months since I last saw him and four days since I last heard from him. He never showed up. FML
Today, after a few years of not feeling ready since my daughter born, I went to my ex's apartment to tell her I am ready to be a dad. Turns out she moved out, two years ago, and left me forwarding address for me. I tried calling her phone. The number was disconnected. FML
Today, my kids' mother, who has been absent and living in a different state for over 12 years, sent a children services worker to my house with a long list of allegations, even though she's 25k behind in support, rather than try to build a normal relationship with her kids in any kind of healthy way. FML
Today, I realized that I got set up by my narcissistic ex-fiancée. She'd planned to get pregnant by me, did, then halfway way through the pregnancy put a restraining order on me, and went MIA. Now I don't know anything about my child. FML
Today, it's been three weeks since I’ve seen my kids. My ex just decided that I was a safety concern after we had 50/50 for almost two years. Now I just gotta wait until I can see a lawyer. FML
Today, a woman reached out to me on Twitter to ask me if my dad was OK, since she talks to him every day and they haven't talked in a few days. She also doesn't know if he's in prison or not. My father left when I was 3, and I haven't talked to him in months. FML
Today, I realised my step-kids never really thought of me as their dad, given that since their mother died 7 months ago, they haven’t visited me once, don’t respond to texts, or answer when I phone them. I’ve been totally abandoned by them, even though I’ve been their stepdad over 25 years. FML
Today, six months have passed since my parents announced that they're getting a divorce. We're all still awkwardly living together because we haven't been able to sell our house yet. FML
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Top comments
RichardPencil 32
Sue for full custody and child support. Seems pretty straightforward to me.
Hangryko 32
File a missing persons report with the police.
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RichardPencil 32
Sue for full custody and child support. Seems pretty straightforward to me.
BurnInDemonFire 39
Also contact her family and friends to see if they know anything.
Hangryko 32
File a missing persons report with the police.
Thaylok 17
Are the kids with you? Is this setting up an alabi for when they do find her? For the first part, if you have the kids, then others said it. petition for full custody and child support (use the state and IRS to help reclaim some $ from wages she reports). if it is the latter, I doubt a post here will help.
Anderling 33
In order: contact her family and see if they have heard from her (maybe she got into an accident or something); file a missing persons report if the answer is no; file for full legal custody and child support if the answer is yes OR if the cops get back to you and say she’s fine and just doesn’t want to see/speak to you.
emmalou 19
Find the silver lining, sometimes it's for the best ❤️
slhiggx 17
Take care of your child.
Chazzster 32
I suggest: (1) Keep on doing whatever you have been doing for the last few months and care for your child, assuming you have been taking care of the child all this time. (2) File a missing person report with the police. (3) Talk to a lawyer or legal advisor. You should be able to get custody and child support from deadbeat mom if the mom disappeared and you have been taking care of the child. If mom took off with the child, still talk to a lawyer or legal adviser - As a parent you normally are supposed to have at least reasonable contact and visitation.
J_Free_Woods 29
Regardless of the outcome get a lawyer. Since she has been missing for over six months, you should try to find out through family and friends what happened and file a police report. It could have been an accident, it could hav been an illness or some other thing where she can’t get ahold of you. Realize the police may put you as a top suspect if she has gone missing, especially since you are taking so long to report this and the first instinct is to go on a website not to them, and yes they will find this because nothing is private anymore.
A.C. Genesis 4
too vague