Relationships With Your Ex-Partner

My husband have a child in a previous relationship the mother of her daughter after separation 6 years ago she never let my husband to visit or support the child. Last month the granny of my husband daughter call and ask my husband that he can visit her daughter. Fast forward we decided to take my husband daughter to holiday. When we were at Durban my husband ex girlfriend will call her daughter about if she is happy or not. She sometimes will text her daughter that when she is alone and able to talk she should buzz her. This text just confused me and I asked myself if this is good for a parent to ask an 10 years child to talk in private.

My ex gets drunk most nights and has my daughter running g around her communal garden at midnight sometimes I came down last Friday as I wa soadsimf and my daughter messaged me saying she was tired but mummy was having a party so I popped in her mum was nearly three bottles deep in red wine and couldn’t talk let alone care for my daughter , I took my daughter upstairs to her bed tucked her in and made sure she was safe , my ex came In after having to be escorted home by a friend threw up for nearly an hour I put her to bed went home and the next Morning I woke to a text saying I wouldn’t be seeing my child anymore until the courts say so ..... four weeks in counting life is unjust .

As the tittle says relationships with ex partners .i have the( best one )with the mother off my child I don’t speak to her at all and as for the child I never had anything to do with her( ever and never will ).she can( rasie her all on her own) I never had intentions off taking the (child away from her or going to court for visitation).or (reconcile) with her mother .its (over and done with many years ago) there is nothing to discuss or work out .ps she keeps her( distance from me there is no trouble same with her daughter )I wish them well in life .end off story.

@rob.this is off the subject I myself had a very bad break up years ago my ex was having affair with my uncle and others I was at my wits end and wanted her to go she thought she was sneaky everyone knows what she is like I would push guys at my front gate in my own house who have just slept with her it got to the stage it was like hey mike did you fun with my fiancé she good in bed and then give him a high five as he leaves.she repulsed me just looking at the fat lazy dirty toad and listening to her the stupidity.now I haven’t seen this toad in 10 years now she going around telling everyone that I am rubbish at golf because off one photo she looked at on my mothers social media saying I never work that I take drugs drink heavily that I share house never cared for her daughter that I am abusvie she even stalks me at the cricket nets .tells everyone i that i have old car .that i am disabled.and she still thinks she got a shot with me I thinks she is disabled .

My partner and myself had a bad break up a year ago. We have a son who is now 18months old. My partner will not let me see our son. I am not working and do not know how to see my son-it is destroying me.

Hi I have a 21 year daughter from a first marriage and in my next marriage I have 2 children at 6 and 2 years old currently. My 21 yr old came to live with us when my son was just a few weeks old. She was a teenager then and was having problems and it led my wife at that time who told her to go back and live with her mum. They have never met and my ex does not want them too. My eldest daughter is now training to be a vicar and I want to introduce them. Do I have any legal rights to be able to introduce them to each other? I think it's only fair for them to know they have other siblings, after all if they don't meet and then find out about each other when they're older they will be angry. Can I insist they meet? I have legal responsibility for the two youngest.

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I'm afraid there is no legal 'stance' on your ex having communication with children when you, the non-resident parent are in charge. It really is something to be sorted out between both parents. If you can't agree between you with regarding the appropriate amount of texting, then you could try mediation as a way of attempting to resolve the issue. Please see link: Mediation: What is it and is it For Me? here . I hope this helps.

I have a situation where my ex is very controlling and after initially preventing from seeing the children I have managed to secure some access to them through the courts. My children are 9 and 11 and they have both been bought phones by the ex and her new bf (where they live). The children come and stay with me every Wednesday and every other weekend. Both being boys and because they spend the majority of their time with their mother are pretty non-plussed about texting or speaking to their mum when they are with me. For the record I do not call or text them when they are with her assuming they are safe and it is her time with them. When they are with me however, they are getting increasingly pressured by their mother to text them and call them a few times a day. It gets to the point where when I am about to return them to her they are both getting upset because they are worried that she is getting to tell them off again because they haven't been constantly texting her. I agreed with her to stop their anxiety about this that they would at least text her before they go to bed and she would do the same for me - except now she is not. For the children's sake I am thinking of just allowing them to speak to her when they want to and so protect them from getting worried about not texting her by having their phones off them when they are with me unless they request it. What is the legal stance on her being able to text and call them though? There is no parenting plan in place or Court Order regards phone contact and sh ehas refused mediation in the past.

My wife of 8 years - the love of my life - left me for another man 2 weeks ago. She'd been seeing him for a month before hand and is moving in with him. For our daugthers sake we've so far managed to stay friends, and have arranged a shared custody arrangement for when she actually moves out. but it's very very hard for me knowing she's already moved on and is with someone else. I really want to be friends, so that we can continue to do things together as a family, and so does she - but she seems to forget sometimes that she's the one who hurt me and continues to talk about her new man in front of me, and our daughter all the time which makes me uncomfortable. Should I say anything, and risk ruining the friendship we're so far managing to maintain, or keep quiet and deal with the pain silently for everyones sake?

hi my boyfriend is polish and we have 5 months old baby.we applied for first baby irish passport on the behalf of his polish father. we recently received baby's new passport. but my ex suddenly came and he claim that this baby is his baby not my boyfriend. after DNA test we r shocked that baby's real father was my ex. so now I want to know that how could I change his father's name on birth cert and what ll happen with his new irish passport. will they cancel my baby's passport?

@Matzarat - please read the article: When Your Ex-Partner Denies You Access, link here to see if you can get contact. You would hope that your child's mother would obviously put the welfare of her child first. If you want to know general information about the man she is living with there is no records you can access. However, if you are really concerned about the welfare of your child, you can access a link to the: What is the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme? here. I hope this helps.

The message has cut short. My questions below this were: Do I have the right to a daily update on my child? Do I have the right to know who this man living with daughter is? Is there anyone I can speak to for advise without having to involve solicitors? I thank you all very much for any help, feedback I get.

I am 24 and my now ex partner is 37. We have a 2 year old daughter and we had been living together for 3 years. I was told in March by my ex that we were not getting on and that she did not want to continue our relationship. Unfortunately this was the first time I was aware things were seriously wrong. Looking back, she did start random arguments with me about very minor things such as empting the dishwasher or putting the washing machine on which I add she did not like me doing any way. She began going to bed really early, around 8pm and really removed herself from conversation. She told me I was always an amazing dad and we continued our sexual relationship up until around 4 days before I found this out. I was told that I should leave and quickly and was expected to be gone within a few weeks. I asked for reasons and whether I had caused any of this, I asked for the chance but was not given one. A few weeks on I was packing my things into boxes and trying to make sure I had not missed anything. I found packets of condoms in one of our drawers, I know they were not ours as they were not the kind we used or needed. When I questioned this (stupidly I might add) i was told our friend had given these to her and she had bought herself a large box as well, just in case... A few days later I was ejected form the house from no reason but I did not argue, she advised me she was feeling tense around me and wanted me to leave for a few days Two days before I moved out I found out that I had been misguided by her and that she was actually seeing another man. The phone she was receiving text messages on was left by accident next to me and my daughter. I took the plunge and looked, this phone was paid for by me as well as the contract and I had believed her up to this point when nobody else I spoke to did. It turns out that she was seeing this man for a short time but it was obvious from the text messages that she was intimate with this man. She was texting this man saying she will bring a rucksack of condoms with her next time she sees him a few days and she would take my daughter away for the bank holiday weekend with him. Obviously I did not react well, I gave her the chance to own up and tell the truth but she forced me to point out I knew the truth. she cried and said sorry and that she was going to tell me but that only made me suffer the pain twice as much. To this date I know this man works in a care home, I know his first name and I know he drinks to get drunk. I have text, called and emailed my ex, something I have asked yes are inappropriate such as does he have something I dont? but surely I deserve to know the truth. Recently I received a message from my ex to say she would not help me see my daughter during the week, i add that I do not drive and it would take me from leaving work at 5 about 1 hour to get the nursery at which time they should have closed, I was also advised she would need to be home at 6:30pm to get ready

@Clack- There is no minimum age at which children in the UK can be left on their own, nor do laws specify how old someone needs to be to babysit. However, if the babysitter is under 16, then the parent remains legally responsible for the child's safety. The NSPCC, advises that children under 13 should not be left at home alone for long periods and children under 16 should not be put in charge of younger children. As recently as 2011 a mother-of-three from the Thames Valley area was cautioned by police after leaving her 14-year-old son at home with his younger sibling for a period of thirty minutes. In your case it may just be that the mother of the children finds face-to-face contact difficult with you. Perhaps, you could ask her directly if the hand over could be carried out by her so that you can discuss the needs and arrangements of your child to prevent any mix ups. I hope this helps.

My ex is letting me see our 7 month old son twice a week currently which is fine at the moment. However, every time I collect him from her house or drop him back, one of her older children hand him over or take him back off me. I find this totally unacceptable. Messages are not relayed properly. In addition to that, how can I be sure when I drop him back that she is even at home and I'm not leaving him being looked after by minors?? Her older children are 15 & 14. If I can't be sure she's at home, I regard this as a safeguarding issue.

After splitting up with with my ex, he agreed (well told me) that he would have our daughter once a week. On many occasions at the last minute he has let her down by txting me to say hes not having her, leaving me to pick up the pieces of her being devestated! I can really see it affecting her now and reallu dont want this for her. He also verbally abuses me and sometimes threatens me. Can someone please give me some guidance? I dont want any contact with him and i also want him not to be able to pick and choose when he wants her. Many thanks

Hi my ex keeps ringing CSA regarding wrong information and trying to cause Trouble, CSA then write to me asking for proof of information which I give them. and then they are satisfied with the information. Then another call comes from my ex and then they write again. she is wasting csa and mine time. how do I stop her doing this? who can I complain to about her so that she can now get in trouble for wasting csa and mine time thanks Mike