To My Ex: You Can’t Use Our Children to Bully Me

Does it make you feel like a man to yell at me?

Does it make you feel like a good father to tell our children how horrible their mom is?

Does it make you feel good about yourself to threaten to “kidnap” our kids because things don’t go your way?

You are bitter and out of control.

Threatening to try to get the kids taken away from me does not prove you are a good father.

It shows that you are selfish. It shows that when things don’t go your way, you become a bully.  It shows that hurting me is more important to you than the well-being of our children.

I know what you want.

You want to still be able to control me. You want a reaction.

But that is not what you are going to get. You will receive my silence, because now I know you aren’t worth my time. You aren’t worth my words.

You think I’m not strong enough to handle what you were throwing at me. You think by threatening to take our children away will leave me so weak I wouldn’t be able to take care of myself or our babies.

You think I’m going to cry in the corner and bend to your will.

Not this time…and not ever again.

Now I know your threats are empty and meaningless.

I’m not the scared girl you used to control. You can’t bully me anymore.

I am a strong woman, and you will never be able to break me again.

And when it comes to my kids, I will go to war for them…especially against a monster like you.