Something happened in the past few days that has changed my family - maybe for good. This has caused me great distress - both because of what actually was done and because of the attitude of both people involved.
Wednesday I was at work, and my youngest daughter rang me and said she couldn't find our kittens anywhere in the house. We have six kittens that are roughly 6 months old. Anyways, to cut a long sad story short - it transpired over the course of a few hours that my ex-husband turned up at my house and removed all kittens and took them away to new homes. He had apparently been planning this for a while now. When he was asked why he did it - he said - because I decided it had to be done. What makes it worse is that he got our eldest child to help him with this - and lets just say due to excessive brainwashing from him - Your mother couldn't afford to keep the kittens - we needed to give them to people who would love and care for them(?) - well she had no remorse for what she had done - even knowing what these kittens were to me.
So now I have lost one of the few things in life I got pleasure from - I am a single mum with three kids to support - I work part-time even though my hours are that of a full-time worker. I don't drink or smoke or go out on dates etc. I also study via correspondance when time allows.
I guess my question is how do I get past this - how can I get some sort of relationship back with my daughter - shes nearly 15 and we have not spoken since this all happened. My ex-husband is abusive about me in front of the kids - and thats not helping calm things down. I really want life to return to normal (whatever that is now) but I just don't know how to go about it.