After DH’s mediation, when he agreed to give BM more child support than he was owed and also agreed to reduce overly dramatic SS’s visitation to Saturday morning through Sunday evening, things have been pretty quiet. Both BM and SS could feel smug that they’d won.

Three visitations in to the new schedule BM declared that SS was now fine coming Friday evenings like he used to. The last visitation weekend, he and DH had a great time together last weekend fishing and target shooting.

To give a brief recap of my step-story....for the last several years, BM has been working hard to alienate one SS (she has seemingly given up on the other one because he does not give her the histrionic reactions she craves). She has told him that DH "caused the divorce" and that DH "hates her." This has caused SS to cause drama in our house for the last two years, including screaming, crying fits that are complete inappropriate for a teen.

BM recently posted on multiple public community Facebook sites to complain about how parents insist on getting involved in their children's disputes with others. She crowed on about how she is working to teach her children coping and communication skills so they could resolve their own conflicts. 

I had to laugh at this, because BM is constantly inserting herself into whatever "conflict" SSs have with DH. She has also rushed in to resolve any conflicts they have at school (both children have switched teachers mid-way through the year several times) and on the sports field. 

It hasn’t even been two weeks and BM has already sent DH a message - via Our Family Wizard - that she does not intend to honor their agreement.

The one thing DH got was to alternate Christmas. Previously, BM had every Christmas Eve and Christmas morning, which DH has been disgruntled about for years. DH offered to give BM more child support than he was owed and to reduce his time with BM’s enmeshed pet (overly dramatic SS).