I finally stood up for my self and my 5 year old son. I put my foot down and told his dad(we have been seperated for almost a year) that I was not going to let him run my life any more. I have been jummping through hoops to accomidate my ex’s schedual for the sake of keeping the peace and keeping my son from suffering. I had held on the the hope that if I led by example and didn’t fight over who droped him off and who picked him up and all the other things that go along with seperations, my ex would come around and stop making everything so difficult. When I left him I never asked for a thing, I let him keep it all. I never asked him for money either. I made it easy on my ex so he wouldn’t take it out on my son. My Ex took all this and more, he had complete control over me and he knew it. Yesterday I finally took back my life. I told him NO MORE I AM THROUGH DEALING WITH YOU. So now we have an appointment with mediation to form a writen agrement. Now if he wants to change his plans Id’s not my problem to find out how to make it fit for him. Now if he tries to use my son against me I can take legal action…......NOW I CAN FINALLY BE THE MOTHER I WANT TO BE!!!!!!!!!!! I’m not there yet, but this was the first step!! I am so happy and hopefull for us both.