78 Days Since I Saw My Daughter
Got married to the alienating parent a decade ago. He was violent towards me, we're talking DV. It escalated around 2.5 years ago when I kicked him out of my home. We were living separately since then and as a goodwill gesture I allowed my daughter to go to his house over the weekend while I tried to file for divorce.
He kept her back one weekend and told me to involve police, so I did. Police found out he'd absconded with my daughter overseas. I've been fighting a losing, uphill, and expensive battle since then. Used Habeas Corpus Petition at the High Court, my petition was overruled.
Now he's back on his smear campaigns telling me and everyone willing to hear, that I am immoral and that my daughter should not be with me ever, etc. She turned 9 away from me a few days ago. That broke me more than I'd like to admit.
He was NEVER an involved parent. My daughter had a peanut allergy and asthma, and had to be hospitalized for her asthma when she was 4 and he told me and the doctors that I was overreacting and exaggerating. Why would I want my daughter at ER and then admitted to the hospital for a week? Because she had a severe asthma attack. More episodes like that over the past decade. But now he's suddenly "the father"?
I'm losing my mind, my money, and I don't know what to do. I also lost my teenager about 5 years ago. She and I were just coming to terms with his death. And now I've lost her as well.
Posted Mar 8, 2026, 1:26 PM UTC