Twelve, fourteen and fourteen years is how long it's been since I knowingly laid eyes on any one of them. The last knowing communication I had from any of them was ten years ago. (Here's to you, Jim Rogers.)
Their mother stonily refuses to tell me a single thing about them, even to say whether they are alive or not. That's a person with a stone-cold heart, and she raised, from their adolescence on, our children to have similarly hard hearts. (And here's to you, Dan (and Laura).)
On each one's birthday (and all Federal and religious holidays) I go to the same restaurant at noon for lunch near where they lived nearby as they became young men under her tutelage, when they learned how easy it was to circumvent court orders governing visitation and custody by merely becoming scofflaws. What was the remedy for the shut-out parent supposed to be, to try to get the other parent (or them) thrown into jail for contempt of court? (Good times from 2001, just before the parental alienation began in earnest (PAS).)
So that's my routine whenever I'm in town (which is almost always) those days, to try to keep alive some potential channel of communication and rapprochement. As these three now-fully mature men climb into their thirties, I'll keep up the routine for as long as I can and maybe someday… . 😉
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