For background I’m going through a high conflict divorce, can’t leave the family home due to legal posturing, the marriage is over three and a half years, dead bedroom as long as I remember, likely in excess of 10 years. Despite best practice I’m now dating, I’ve already lost enough of my life to this horrible person. I live in a no fault state so this will have zero impact. I was alienated from my kids long before I began dating.

Having been deeply alienated from my 20 year old daughter with my two sons soon to follow I relate to Brads plight.

From the article below it appears Brads been alienated from his children, his breakdown on the private jet obviously hasn’t helped his situation but those of us who have been dealing with high conflict women and kids that play one parent off the other we should appreciate the propensity to blow a fuse under these circumstances.

No question Jolies family life has been a factor here, characterized by an intensely close bond with her mother and a famously volatile, frequently estranged relationship with her father, actor Jon Voight. What Brads dealing with is history repeating itself.

My own wife (alcoholic father) behaves similarly, selfless devotion to the children, to the point she slaves away daily bringing them fried breakfasts in bed daily, cleaning their rooms and driving them everywhere.

She showers them with gifts and money and tolerates bad behaviour. Want to go drinking, she goes too. Want to leave your shit strewn all over the house, no problem.

I bought daughter a starter car, don’t bother with that, I”ll insure you on my luxury SUV she says. The car was given back to me with a list of brands to consider next time. There won’t be a next time.

If I pull the kids up on anything she disagrees.

It’s a been tough world living in a divided family, her and the children as a unit and me.

For now I’m trying to play her at her game, don’t argue or pull the children up on anything, give them money, let them away with everything. She’s created the monster, it’s too late, I really don’t want to end up where Brad is which must be heartbreaking.

https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-15841941/Brad-Pitt-Angelina-children-ALISON-BOSHOFF.html?ito=social-facebook&ito=social-facebook-celeb&fbclid=IwdGRjcAR_j1NleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEe3P5yee-7qtO7RINlqISkjM9zurmAhjP2VV9lqb645x1rD9P7PgDNkTntUxo_aem_29migDi7yTgjLsTJBH1ZKA