Virtual Insanity

This situation just keeps getting better and better, with no end in sight. My son's mom seems to think I'm an on going sounding board for the issuses she's having with our son. I go to bed with the sound of her voice in my head, constantly complaining and I wake up to her ringing my cell phone and my work phone off the hook! How refreshing to get these daily calls from her, it's like we never seperated and she's doing her best to make sure that the 2 of them remain the focal point of my life. How dare me have a happy life while she's stuck with the turmoil of dealing with my son. The impression that I'm getting is that she refuses to allow me a peaceful moment as long as she has my son. Forget the fact that while he lived with me for 3 years he was a decent well rounded young man, oh and did I mention that he was a straight "A" honor roll student, constantly making the Dean's list? It appears to me that fathers may be a little more valuable than what we're given credit for!

As of this writing my son's mom has informed me that now he's on the verge of getting left behind in school if he doesn't get his act together. I'm assuming that his teachers have pretty much had it with his attitude and lack of effort in school. I don't even have to go into how livid I was during her phone call yesterday, had my son been in front of me while I was talking to his mom, I would have put his friggin head through the wall! Once again I have to sit his ass down and explain to him the virtues of getting a good education and how even blue collar workers have to have some type of advanced knowledge, in order to survive in this day and age. There are no more manual labor jobs paying livable wages anymore. In the era that we live in now, some type of formal education is imperative or you risk having a career going no where or no career at all.

His mother has it in her head that now he needs to move back in with me, disrupting his life and mine once again. The novelty of being his mother and making him do what's required of him as a child has worn off and like the disposable society we live in, she no longer wants him around. It appears as though he's not fitting in with her current lifestyle and before he causes anymore chaos, he needs to go. I blame her for this continuous meltdown of my son because I'll be dammed if he's going to live in my home and not follow the script and do as I say. I don't care what his personal issues are, school comes first and failure is not an option! To say I'm angry is an understatement, I'M PISSED OFF!!!!!!!!!!. My emotions are running hot and cold at this point and the only thing that I can do at this point is stay focused and do what I have to do as his father. Hmmm, that's easier said than done, but hopefully we'll get through some how. Parenting doesn't come with instructions but it sure would help.