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<blockquote data-quote="firehorsewoman" data-source="post: 577729" data-attributes="member: 15804"><p>Yes, easy child is definitely keeping a low profile, always has. Is also the favored one by the stepmother, who takes her shopping and does girly things with her. easy child is also afraid of her father and will avoid confrontation with him at all cost even if it is something that she doesn't like or doesn't want to do she will never stand up to her dad or even bring up anything in the slightest that is negative. He is a strict authoritarian type when it comes to parenting (so is the stepmom) and easy child is a people pleaser especially when it comes to her dad.</p><p></p><p>I know that the ex reads the e-mails and I am pretty sure that he would go ballistic on the wife if she were deleting them without him reading first. She knows that I will eventually keep asking him via text or in person about whatever the subject was so there is no way she could delete them without him knowing and he just does not have the kind of personality that would let that go. </p><p></p><p>difficult child tells me that he does everything possible to get on the stepmother's good side but nothing works. I can see how that would be. He is a very difficult kid and she obviously does not have a strong bond to him. Contrast him to easy child, a quiet, easy, girly girl and it is easy to see how this situation would arise and I am not surprised. I don't want to overreact but also don't want difficult child to think that there aren't any adults in his life that he can talk to about this. When I get them back later this week, I will find out if difficult child got the nerve to talk to his dad. The ex-mother in law and I don't exactly have the "go out for coffee" type of relationship but the next time I see her, I will bring it up or I may call her. Not e-mailing for sure. yeah, the ex is definitely a Mama's boy so that is what I am thinking too.</p><p></p><p>thanks everyone</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="firehorsewoman, post: 577729, member: 15804"] Yes, easy child is definitely keeping a low profile, always has. Is also the favored one by the stepmother, who takes her shopping and does girly things with her. easy child is also afraid of her father and will avoid confrontation with him at all cost even if it is something that she doesn't like or doesn't want to do she will never stand up to her dad or even bring up anything in the slightest that is negative. He is a strict authoritarian type when it comes to parenting (so is the stepmom) and easy child is a people pleaser especially when it comes to her dad. I know that the ex reads the e-mails and I am pretty sure that he would go ballistic on the wife if she were deleting them without him reading first. She knows that I will eventually keep asking him via text or in person about whatever the subject was so there is no way she could delete them without him knowing and he just does not have the kind of personality that would let that go. difficult child tells me that he does everything possible to get on the stepmother's good side but nothing works. I can see how that would be. He is a very difficult kid and she obviously does not have a strong bond to him. Contrast him to easy child, a quiet, easy, girly girl and it is easy to see how this situation would arise and I am not surprised. I don't want to overreact but also don't want difficult child to think that there aren't any adults in his life that he can talk to about this. When I get them back later this week, I will find out if difficult child got the nerve to talk to his dad. The ex-mother in law and I don't exactly have the "go out for coffee" type of relationship but the next time I see her, I will bring it up or I may call her. Not e-mailing for sure. yeah, the ex is definitely a Mama's boy so that is what I am thinking too. thanks everyone [/QUOTE]
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