I’m sitting in the hospital with my 7yo just feeling terrible. This year was their moms Memorial Day on the holiday schedule during what would have otherwise been my time with my kids.

She took the kids to her scumbag friends house for a party and was drinking not paying attention and my daughter tried to hug a dog who then bit her face. Extremely luckily her eye itself is not damaged but her eyelid has been mutilated and she is waiting to go into an operating room with a plastic surgeon tonight at midnight now.

While we were married we fought SEVERAL times because their mom would just encourage them to run up to ANY fucking dog they saw and pet it without so much as asking an owner if it was ok to do. Even stray animals were totally fine. I would lose my shit and say she can’t keep doing that and of course I was controlling blah blah blah, divorce finalized 6 months ago and we are already here, magically.

On one hand I do understand that things can happen sometimes but this one just fucking guts me because it was SO preventable and something I have harped on SO many times with her. I just don’t trust my ex’s judgement or ability to think critically at all when it comes to stuff like this.

I have a strong feeling the eyes of the court would view this as a tragic accident, which on one hand it is, but how many completely preventable and super common sense bullshit issues are we going to have to have before I can do something about it in a court setting. It just makes me sick to my stomach that 50% of the time they’re with their mom who is a complete fucking idiot who isn’t doing her job to protect them. I know she is going to be just as stupid about the guys she introduces to the girls too and it just makes me sick. How many times does shit like this have to happen before I can have my kids more than 50%?