Recent content by SherbertLemon

Yes, I had a mental health breakdown in March. I had my daughter for a full week until Sunday and it was lovely. She said on Friday that daddy shouts at her though so I’m worried about it that. He’d sooner lie to himself and expect others to believe him than be honest and do the anger management...

I don’t know what to do. I need some emotional security in myself and am experiencing feeling so hateful of myself and really distressed with it this evening. I so alone. I miss the time I’ll never get back with my daughter. I don’t want to be an emotional punchbag anymore but I feel trapped in...

I have had a close friend talk with my ex and succeed in essentially saying everything I have empathetically and patiently spoken to my ex about for years in order to address things and move forward. Seeing him silently listen and recognise he was not taking any of it on board…again. Initial...

I want to be angry, I really do. When I have briefly been passionate about the topic my aunty and uncle don’t deal with it well and I get more negativity toward me and they make out like I’m an even bigger problem and not that the problem is the problem. I’ll be honest, it leaves me wanting to...

Child asleep in bed next to me. So happy to have time with her however the feeling of having time robbed with her due to ex leaves this sadness in me. I thought the chest ache I felt would lessen or resolve. My uncle is putting forward how much background work he is doing to communicate with...

I hadn’t anyone to take me nor anyone whom really believes how bad things have been. He was fine and normal and it was a brief interaction where I gave him a blank copy of a parenting plan for him to look at and complete in line with what CAFCASS support as a best line practice and then child...

Thank you. I was clutching at what I thought were straws in joining this site and I am so nervous and yet so proud of myself for doing so. Feeling so isolated and then isolating myself from help because I’ve spoken to friends in the past and there has been no understanding whatsoever of how...

I’m meeting my abusive partner briefly at the train station tomorrow to collect my child and have her with me for 5 days. I have been so anxious, stressed and feeling a sense of hyper vigilance for the last 2 days about it. I am exhausted and don’t find it comfortable pretending things are ok...

I minimise my experiences a lot and think other people’s situations and life experiences are worse than mine. It doesn’t help me much as I sit from a more isolated position in respect of how I view my experience as less abusive than others. In the context of what I was able to tolerate and that...

I am new here. I am perpetually exhausted. I had a stress related psychotic breakdown after 3yrs in an emotionally abusive relationship where healthy communication was seldom able to be had. I say seldom, it was never truly possible. Any communication I tried to have with the ex ended up in...