Starlit_Cazza
Restart 3/9/2013
I am sipping away at a freshly made choc mint shake...mmmmmm. Had a tiring day followed by a hysterical daughter at bedtime again.
I was seeing a bloke called Richard for 2 1/2 years from when my daughter was about 20 months until Sept 2011. My daughters dad has not had contact since she was 5 months (his choice, w*nker). Richard was a brilliant step dad to my daughter, and after about a year together she seemed to make the decision in her head to call him daddy. Anyway we were living up in Nottingham and in July Chloe and I moved to Portsmouth (200 miles away) as what is left of my family is down here and there was nothing keeping me up there. Richard stayed in touch and Chloe speaks to him most nights. But since just before Christmas she has been increasingly hysterical at bedtime. She sobs that she misses him so much and some nights is just inconsolable. She has seen Richard a few times since we moved, and she is much happier down here on the whole, she just misses him so much. Any bright ideas if there is any way I can make this better? I am exhausted of ideas and running short of tolerance (it's been weeks and weeks now and it is always at bedtime). I do genuinely think that she misses him massively, but I do think it is partly behaviour...
Sorry totally off topic there, I am just stuck
I was seeing a bloke called Richard for 2 1/2 years from when my daughter was about 20 months until Sept 2011. My daughters dad has not had contact since she was 5 months (his choice, w*nker). Richard was a brilliant step dad to my daughter, and after about a year together she seemed to make the decision in her head to call him daddy. Anyway we were living up in Nottingham and in July Chloe and I moved to Portsmouth (200 miles away) as what is left of my family is down here and there was nothing keeping me up there. Richard stayed in touch and Chloe speaks to him most nights. But since just before Christmas she has been increasingly hysterical at bedtime. She sobs that she misses him so much and some nights is just inconsolable. She has seen Richard a few times since we moved, and she is much happier down here on the whole, she just misses him so much. Any bright ideas if there is any way I can make this better? I am exhausted of ideas and running short of tolerance (it's been weeks and weeks now and it is always at bedtime). I do genuinely think that she misses him massively, but I do think it is partly behaviour...
Sorry totally off topic there, I am just stuck