Making a list, checking it twice...
I came across this on another blog and decided to do a good old copy-and-paste. Parental Alienation Syndrome is very real and very scary. Fortunately, both Husband and I have a decent enough relationship with both Son and Daughter that we get along with them for the most part, despite The Ex's constant attempts to make us the "bad guys." I'll go through and put into bold each of these that Husband and/or I have experienced from The Ex, along with commentary: Some early signs of Parental Alienation: 1. Children perceive one parent as causing financial problems of the other parent ( When the kids lived with The Ex, she got almost $400 in child support every month and still "didn't have any money" and was "tired of paying for everything." Now that the kids live here, The Ex doesn't have any money because she pays less than $200 each month in child support. Son once angrily stated that "all [Husband] wants to do is waste [The ...