My ex-wife just married my brother

[ccdistancerunner]

I wanna know what type of dickhead court came up with the ruling of only 3 hours of supervised visits a month. That is complete bullshit.

 

[Uncompetative]

QUESTION: Why do Americans celebrate Thanksgiving? What is behind it?

i.e. Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ with a religious 'mass'.

ANSWER: Americans(aswell as Canadians) celebrate thanksgiving to commemorate the early days of the settlers. Back in the day, North America was a very harsh climate(compared to Europe) and many settlers didn't make it the first few trys. Essentialy, if the harvest was shit there was a good chance that you would die before spring. Therefor, they created a feast at the end of the harvest season to "give thanks" that their harvest had been bountiful. This is why it was called "Thanksgiving".

Note: This is also why Americans have it in November while Canadians celebrate in October. As you move farther north(and thus into Canada) the harvest season ends sooner, so they would have had their feast sooner.

OK. Excellent explanation.

The snag is one question remains unanswered:

QUESTION: Why do Americans still celebrate Thanksgiving when they are no longer at risk of dying due to a poor harvest?

 

[this_username_sucks]

Wow, I'm sorry. Every word of that story was really horrible, I can't believe this has been done to you.

Try to move on, find someone new. As soon as you fall in love again, your new girl will take your mind off her, at least a little.

 

[The_Chief]

and she was slammed with a 100 mile restraining order.

THY CAN DO THAT!??

and man...thats a rough break and i feel real bad for ya. i say cut all ties, but not before bleaching her car and lawn

 

[grimdeath999]

i recommend you destroy that evil incarnate, after all your family and her have done to you they dont seem like much of a family however they are human (which are mostly untrustworthy,deceitful and corrupt) just move on dont dwell on it find someone new and if your family interferes then you might have to go with the option of walking away from them by the time your daughter is older she might relize how evil her mother is and how good hearted her father is dont worry it will work itself out somehow i hope you will be fine ^_^

 

[Sewblon]

So far as I can tell, your options are, 1. get as far away from your family as you possibly can and contact a lawyer to see about getting your daughter back, 2. confront your family about how they took your ex's side over yours, 3. guilt trip all of them until they either take your side or stop speaking to you. option 4. deal with it. The problem with option 1. is it could take years to get a result one way or the other, the problem with option 2. is your ex-wife sounds like she will find a way to paint you as the villian if you do it, the problem with option 3. is even if it works you will probably alienate your family forever, and the problem with option 4. is you will probably not forgive yourself for not trying to fix this. Maybe if I had more specifics I could actually help you.

 

[G-Dragon]

im not saying this exactly, but you may want to look at it this way, if your family chose her over you, did they really do it because of what you think, or do they really think that she deserves the child more? family is a pretty strong bond and for this to happen its gonna have some pretty remarkable circumstances, and so far from what i've read you havent really given what most of her "dirty tactics" are.

 

[Delritho]

OK. Excellent explanation.

The snag is one question remains unanswered:

QUESTION: Why do Americans still celebrate Thanksgiving when they are no longer at risk of dying due to a poor harvest?

Why do Christians still celebrate Christmas? Jews Hanukkah, or any other religion/national holiday?

Because we need reasons to get together and get drunk.

 

[FROGGEman2]

what is this i dont even

KILL YOUR FUCKING BROTHER.

 

[katsa5]

and she was slammed with a 100 mile restraining order.

THY CAN DO THAT!??

Yep, that's how bad it was.

 

[Xanian]

Assuming that everything you said can be taken at face value and has no bias whatsoever...::cough hack cough::

Kill 'em with kindness.

Join the Peace Corp in some third world country that needs you more than your family and stay there for ten or so years. That way, no one can be mad at you because, come on, you're in the Peace Corp for God's sake.

Every year, send your family a gift in the form of a donation to charity, like sinking a well in Uganda or aiding victims of sex traffic-ing saying, "It's not much, but I hope it helps a lot."

Hopefully your new child and girlfriend/ wife/ lover/ etc. are the traveling type too, and you can take them with you. Then, you get to live as the sainted family that was while staying the HELL away from your toxic family. Plus it will make it VERY hard for your wife to talk shit and your daughter will feel guilty if she even thinks you abandoned her...because you're helping the less fortunate.

Then...I moved to SOuth Korea to teach English because my Ex cheated on me... >_>

 

[TheGreatCoolEnergy]

QUESTION: Why do Americans celebrate Thanksgiving? What is behind it?

i.e. Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ with a religious 'mass'.

ANSWER: Americans(aswell as Canadians) celebrate thanksgiving to commemorate the early days of the settlers. Back in the day, North America was a very harsh climate(compared to Europe) and many settlers didn't make it the first few trys. Essentialy, if the harvest was shit there was a good chance that you would die before spring. Therefor, they created a feast at the end of the harvest season to "give thanks" that their harvest had been bountiful. This is why it was called "Thanksgiving".

Note: This is also why Americans have it in November while Canadians celebrate in October. As you move farther north(and thus into Canada) the harvest season ends sooner, so they would have had their feast sooner.

OK. Excellent explanation.

The snag is one question remains unanswered:

QUESTION: Why do Americans still celebrate Thanksgiving when they are no longer at risk of dying due to a poor harvest?

ANSWER: Why do we still celebrate any holiday? tradition of course!

 

[Canid117]

QUESTION: Why do Americans celebrate Thanksgiving? What is behind it?

i.e. Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ with a religious 'mass'.

ANSWER: Americans(aswell as Canadians) celebrate thanksgiving to commemorate the early days of the settlers. Back in the day, North America was a very harsh climate(compared to Europe) and many settlers didn't make it the first few trys. Essentialy, if the harvest was shit there was a good chance that you would die before spring. Therefor, they created a feast at the end of the harvest season to "give thanks" that their harvest had been bountiful. This is why it was called "Thanksgiving".

Note: This is also why Americans have it in November while Canadians celebrate in October. As you move farther north(and thus into Canada) the harvest season ends sooner, so they would have had their feast sooner.

OK. Excellent explanation.

The snag is one question remains unanswered:

QUESTION: Why do Americans still celebrate Thanksgiving when they are no longer at risk of dying due to a poor harvest?

You are supposed to give thanks for all that you have but most people just eat turkey and watch football. Some pushy lady got it signed into law by Lincoln and we have been giving ourselves heart attacks ever since.

 

[Maze1125]

I wanna know what type of dickhead court came up with the ruling of only 3 hours of supervised visits a month. That is complete bullshit.

One that had a lot more information on the subject at hand than we do.

Ever heard of Fathers for Justice? How those poor poor men were deprived of seeing their children for no good reason beyond the family courts favouring women?

Well, a newspaper did some research into their background, and it turned out that the majority of the founding members had domestic abuse convictions.

Nothing is ever as simple as one side of the argument will portray it.

 

[Uncompetative]

QUESTION: Why do Americans celebrate Thanksgiving? What is behind it?

i.e. Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ with a religious 'mass'.

ANSWER: Americans(aswell as Canadians) celebrate thanksgiving to commemorate the early days of the settlers. Back in the day, North America was a very harsh climate(compared to Europe) and many settlers didn't make it the first few trys. Essentialy, if the harvest was shit there was a good chance that you would die before spring. Therefor, they created a feast at the end of the harvest season to "give thanks" that their harvest had been bountiful. This is why it was called "Thanksgiving".

Note: This is also why Americans have it in November while Canadians celebrate in October. As you move farther north(and thus into Canada) the harvest season ends sooner, so they would have had their feast sooner.

OK. Excellent explanation.

The snag is one question remains unanswered:

QUESTION: Why do Americans still celebrate Thanksgiving when they are no longer at risk of dying due to a poor harvest?

You are supposed to give thanks for all that you have but most people just eat turkey and watch football. Some pushy lady got it signed into law by Lincoln and we have been giving ourselves heart attacks ever since.

You have to eat turkey because it is the law? How is this law enforced?

Anyway, back on topic it would seem that I was right in advising the OP to not attend Thanksgiving (or Christmas) with his parents ever again as he has nothing "to give thanks for" as far as they are concerned. Who was this pushy lady anyway? I'm intrigued.

 

[Canid117]

QUESTION: Why do Americans celebrate Thanksgiving? What is behind it?

i.e. Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ with a religious 'mass'.

ANSWER: Americans(aswell as Canadians) celebrate thanksgiving to commemorate the early days of the settlers. Back in the day, North America was a very harsh climate(compared to Europe) and many settlers didn't make it the first few trys. Essentialy, if the harvest was shit there was a good chance that you would die before spring. Therefor, they created a feast at the end of the harvest season to "give thanks" that their harvest had been bountiful. This is why it was called "Thanksgiving".

Note: This is also why Americans have it in November while Canadians celebrate in October. As you move farther north(and thus into Canada) the harvest season ends sooner, so they would have had their feast sooner.

OK. Excellent explanation.

The snag is one question remains unanswered:

QUESTION: Why do Americans still celebrate Thanksgiving when they are no longer at risk of dying due to a poor harvest?

You are supposed to give thanks for all that you have but most people just eat turkey and watch football. Some pushy lady got it signed into law by Lincoln and we have been giving ourselves heart attacks ever since.

You have to eat turkey because it is the law? How is this law enforced?

Anyway, back on topic it would seem that I was right in advising the OP to not attend Thanksgiving (or Christmas) with his parents ever again as he has nothing "to give thanks for" as far as they are concerned. Who was this pushy lady anyway? I'm intrigued.

The turkey police come to your house and shove the bird down your throat.
I kid I kid but the eating turkey is just tradition but the holiday is an official U.S. holiday so schools and banks and federal employees get the day off and people just like to gather and celebrate life basically. As for what he should do I would find a lawyer and get the kid back then move away and never return, but apparently the little girl already calls his brother daddy so she might be a lost cause...

lets hope not but it is possible.