Taking the high road is what most men do but sometimes it is very difficult. What do you do when your ex wife tells the kids that:

You never helped when they were little despite the fact that you were the only one working both day and night shifts to cover all the bills. She stayed home for the first 6 years of marriage. The kids were in day care as early as when they were 3 months old. Her daily routine was to drop them off at daycare and preschool then come home to a 4000sq foot home that I paid all the bills. Do the kids laundry. I did my laundry myself as she felt ‘overworked’. I cooked sometimes. She watched all the seasons of sex and the city and all the episodes of desperate housewives. She was also upset with me that we didn’t have a live in nanny.

I handed her a Chase credit card with a limit of $30,000 to help run the house. My job was to pay the credit card bill. She told the kids I never bought things for them. Does she not realize that the person that pays the credit card bill is more important than the person that does the Amazon shopping? For her, clicking the ‘buy’ tab on her phone was more consequential than the person that actually pays the bills.

Fortunately, my kids are teenagers and have witnessed how I have been devoted to the family. She is trying hard to rewrite history but most people are not buying it. For me parental alienation hurts more than half of my assets she was awarded.

I must admit I was a Simp. I was very eager to make her happy. She was always moving the goalpost. I was quick to make excuses for her. We had a decent piece of the American dream. Date nights, fancy dinners, overseas vacation , nice house but it wasn’t enough.

My conclusion is that I was never her first choice. I was just the safest choice since I provided the lifestyle that she wanted.

What is your most crazy parental alienation story?