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Today is hard.

This is the first Father's Day my kids will spend without seeing or talking to their dad. My attorney and advocate both said it was not a good idea to have the kids call him. I know if the roles were reversed he wouldn't have them call me. But I feel super shitty.

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SW-User

☹️ He wouldn't have called them?

My niece that's 16 doesn't want to call her dad for the same reason.
It's just how she feels..

Do your kids want to call him? I think that's important to considerate

SomebodyThatYouUsedToKnow · 36-40, F

@SW-User We have a civil protection order, he's not allowed to contact us or be within 500 ft of us. But I am allowed to contact him, I just don't because he is a shit show. My older 2 want nothing to do with him. My younger 2 would talk to him if I called, but they are too young to understand the abuse. They just know that daddy was grumpy all the time.

SW-User

@SomebodyThatYouUsedToKnow if it was my case, and the younger wanted to, I'd just let him talk to him on the phone and say happy day. But you're the mom you have to decide 💚.