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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 542012" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>sister in law isn't on the police force any more. Right before he told her that he didn't want to be married anymore, he voluntarily left the police force and took another job in computers/electronics, what he had always done before. I know he loved the job but wasn't happy with the department he was working for and had applications in for jobs in other municipalities. It makes no sense to me that he left police work altogether either because he <em>loved</em> the work he was doing. He was on this special drunk driver task force and was never happier than when he was getting another drunk driver off the roads and hauling them off to jail! Years ago a drunk driver killed his grandfather and severely injured his grandmother and he never forgot it! Every drunk driver he stopped was "one for grandpa"!</p><p></p><p>As far as Ethan goes, sister in law has always been a WONDERFUL, loving, caring father! But it was because of his crazy hours at work that he never saw Ethan. When Ethan was at home and awake, sister in law was either at work or he was sleeping - terrible hours for someone with a small child. And that forced A to be a virtual single parent almost every evening, very hard on them all. And Ethan, sweet and angelic as he looks, has officially been in that "defiant stage" since his first birthday and can be a force to contend with! If Ethan got to spend one day a week with his daddy where they could all do something together, he was lucky. The hours were why he was looking for a position on a different police force ... hard to do because a lot of them were already having cutbacks and layoffs.</p><p></p><p>sister in law had already started his new job when they decided to separate and he had found an apartment. But for the first few weeks he would be at home when A got off work and came home with Ethan. Then when Ethan went to bed, he would move some of his things, a few at a time, to his apartment. His moving out was very gradual. Then he started NOT being there maybe one evening a week, then two evenings, then three. So now Ethan knows that his daddy doesn't sleep there any more and but he still sees him and spends a lot of time with him two or three times a week. So far, he hasn't questioned it and hasn't been alarmed or upset. Who knows how much a child just barely three years old really can understand about separation and divorce? Probably not much. I just wish there was something I could do about it but there is nothing!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 542012, member: 1883"] sister in law isn't on the police force any more. Right before he told her that he didn't want to be married anymore, he voluntarily left the police force and took another job in computers/electronics, what he had always done before. I know he loved the job but wasn't happy with the department he was working for and had applications in for jobs in other municipalities. It makes no sense to me that he left police work altogether either because he [I]loved[/I] the work he was doing. He was on this special drunk driver task force and was never happier than when he was getting another drunk driver off the roads and hauling them off to jail! Years ago a drunk driver killed his grandfather and severely injured his grandmother and he never forgot it! Every drunk driver he stopped was "one for grandpa"! As far as Ethan goes, sister in law has always been a WONDERFUL, loving, caring father! But it was because of his crazy hours at work that he never saw Ethan. When Ethan was at home and awake, sister in law was either at work or he was sleeping - terrible hours for someone with a small child. And that forced A to be a virtual single parent almost every evening, very hard on them all. And Ethan, sweet and angelic as he looks, has officially been in that "defiant stage" since his first birthday and can be a force to contend with! If Ethan got to spend one day a week with his daddy where they could all do something together, he was lucky. The hours were why he was looking for a position on a different police force ... hard to do because a lot of them were already having cutbacks and layoffs. sister in law had already started his new job when they decided to separate and he had found an apartment. But for the first few weeks he would be at home when A got off work and came home with Ethan. Then when Ethan went to bed, he would move some of his things, a few at a time, to his apartment. His moving out was very gradual. Then he started NOT being there maybe one evening a week, then two evenings, then three. So now Ethan knows that his daddy doesn't sleep there any more and but he still sees him and spends a lot of time with him two or three times a week. So far, he hasn't questioned it and hasn't been alarmed or upset. Who knows how much a child just barely three years old really can understand about separation and divorce? Probably not much. I just wish there was something I could do about it but there is nothing! [/QUOTE]
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