SD16 called DH on a Thur afternoon to get her because she had a huge fight with her mother and wanted to come to our house. I got her because DH could not leave work.

She said she was never going back. She said all sorts of things about her mom, and what her mom says about DH and I and our family.

Her mother said if she wanted to live with us, she cannot have anything from her mom's house that her mom or her mom's family paid for. She still said she wanted to stay.

On Sun, she spoke to her Grandmother (her mom's mom) and maybe her mom too, and decided she'd go live with her grandmother instead, she'd be able to have all her stuff there. Plus her mother's family could not believe she'd choose to go by her dad and they all blamed him for encouraging her to leave her mother and mother's family.

Exactly one week later, things between SD16 and her mom are back to normal and even great (as per the posts and pics on FB) and DH gets a nasty email from BM saying please stop saying things about her to slander her. Now DH hasn't been saying anything about her to the kids, SD has been saying stuff about her mother... but DH has been sadly sadly played.

SD has learnt very, very well how to be manipulative and get what she wants by playing her parents against each other. And daddy dearest, wants to believe in his heart that it ain't so, even though it's very, very clear.

Sad part is, I can see DH falling for it again the next time SD cries wolf.

Although I really really hope he won't.