Thankfully we are out of court now, after his arrest there was no chance of contact so he stopped pushing for court dates. I have had some trauma counselling, which definitely helped with the more serious things such as night terrors and hyper-awareness. I have tried to keep my son completely out of the loop – he was too young when I left to know anything and I have never spoken to him about it. He sees my avoidance and thinks I just hate his dad, I don’t know how I would ever tell him the truth. On a recent call, his dad claimed he owned a big profitab;le company now and that my son would inherit it, and that he had loads of money set aside for when he was 18. Afterwards I tried to caution him that his dad might not be telling the whole truth – he just accused me of hating his dad and trying to push him out of his life.
