My husband’s wife, who he cheated with and left me for, is incredibly hateful to me which is very damaging to my daughter. As I’ve mentioned before, my daughter lives with them because she’s emotionally disturbed, very hard to handle, and she doesn’t listen to me. The only person she listens to is her stepmother, who is on top of her 24/7. This woman is the Gestapo, and I guess my daughter needs the Gestapo because she respects this woman and seems to love her. At the moment my daughter isn’t visiting with me—by choice. I think the bad vibes from her stepmother towards me are too much for her to handle.
Today I went to a talk because I knew my daughter would be there. She was. I hadn’t seen her all summer. She seemed happy to see me, and my dog Shadow who she loves, and I asked her to take a picture of Shadow. As soon as she started pointing the camera at the dog her stepmother came over and yelled at her for being rude or out of line or something. She glared at me as well. I said something like “what’s your problem,” but she ignored me. From then on my daughter was less friendly and certainly didn’t try to take a pics of Shadow. This woman radiates pure hatred towards me. She’s an evil force.
Well, I shall have my revenge. <as I rub my palms together and cackle> My bookcomes out in May and it has the entire story of the end of my marriage, including the role of this hideous woman who I call the WWW, Wicked Witch of the West. Actually I named everyone after characters in the Wizard of Oz. I named her Alina (first name of Mrs. Gulch) and mentioned that she actually looks like Margaret Hamilton on steroids, my ex is Zeke, the farmhand who played the Cowardly Lion and my daughter is,of course, Dorothy, an innocent victim who got deposited in a strange land.
We live in a small town and they work together in a small social service agency where EVERYONE will probably read this book. I’ll make sure of it. I just don’t want my daughter to get ahold of it until she’s older. She’s ten now and, unfortunately, a very good reader. But they will have to live with the knowledge that she WILL read it and get all the details about their hideous behavior eventually. There’s something about having your treachery in print—forever—that beats mere verbal accounts. Writing well is the best revenge. I recommend it. By the way it’s a good book, and will help other divorced women.