Parenting... She lies a lot to everyone, and although she isn't actually very good at it, she is good at looking pitiful, and older, more numb people are ridiculously easy to slip lies by, she just makes herself look pitiful. So when I first got her there were like five social workers/therapists circling, and calling me every other day, wanting to do custody mediation or what now. I basically just ignored them until they wen't away. Her physical and mental health began to dramatically improve here, and I let her dress, and be the ways she wanted and thing. So they just stopped bothering me. I really get my Dad to do all of the stuff like talk to schools, and take her to appointments and things. I tend to be too busy working any.
We arranged a joint custody thing. It would be difficult to get full custody from my Mom, she would want to retain any support money she is receiving from her. Though I'm sure that I could arrange to just pay the difference back to her if I wanted to.
I am doing it half-assed though, and need to make up my mind, and either accept or reject this situation completely. Just that she lies so so much to me and everyone all the time, and thinks that she's the smartest that ever lived, and I'm probably a crazy idiot, just like mom... but easy to manipulate. So, since just before this thread, when I cleaned myself up, I started calling her on that shit, and continue to.
I really need her to start being honest with me... but I fear that having never even seen such a thing before, that she may not even be able to tell the difference at the moment, and that's going to take a lot of work.