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Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	Unknown	Report	21 Dec 2004 12:09
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	Which goes to prove that the best presents to give and receive are love, tolerance, acceptance, gratitude, forgiveness and hugs :-) What a shame there seems to be a shortage sometimes. nell
Member Since: November 2002 Posts: 1 617 Send Message	Fairy	Report	21 Dec 2004 11:39
	Last Christmas it was my Grandsons first Christmas. I thought I would make a special 'First Christmas' stocking. I even drove 50 miles just to get it embroidered with his name on it. I trimmed the stocking with white fur and stitched gold bells on it. I was very proud of it and knew the baby's mother would love it. I put little presents inside it and gave it to her. She immediatly threw it onto the settee and snapped at me that he already had one and did'nt need another one. If she had stabbed me it could'nt have hurt more, I was so upset. I'll never do it again. Jo.
Member Since: August 2004 Posts: 959 Send Message	Jack (Sahara)	Report	21 Dec 2004 11:26
Member Since: August 2004 Posts: 959 Send Message	Clare I don't think you'll have anything to worry about this year. Dean was only telling me this morning that he is used to getting only a few presents - he's gonna be gobsmacked this year. His ex is horrible too. She sets strict time limits for access and won't let him have the boys overnight - yet they stay at her parents at least 3 nights a week. She won't talk to him about what she has got the boys for Christmas so there is a big chance that we'll buy the same as her. I believe that what goes around comes around though. Jack x
Member Since: March 2004 Posts: 320 Send Message	Fee	Report	21 Dec 2004 10:54
Member Since: March 2004 Posts: 320 Send Message	We will have a damn good Christmas despite her nastiness.Its just one in a list of a catalogue of spitefulness from her so we should have expected it (and I kinda of did) but it doesnt hurt any the more less.
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 5 204 Send Message	badger	Report	21 Dec 2004 10:48
	that sounds so sad to me,letting your children suffer so that you can twist the knife and get your jollies.This woman could do with going to see a shrink methinks.I would'nt be happy if this happened to me with any of my grandkids.Despite this problem ,have a nice Christmas and new year.Fred.ptfg.
	Researching: Baird,Barnes,Sturgess,King,Bristow, Mead,Brooks,Lane,Bartlett, Tyneside Chesham, Bucks,London & home counties
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 17 761 Send Message	PinkDiana	Report	21 Dec 2004 10:47
	My soon to be ex used to do that.... I'd buy him a gift, and it would sit there unopened for days and days until he saw fit to accept it!! She is trying to hurt you.... keep them all and show the children later in life.... they will see her for what she is one day!!
Member Since: July 2004 Posts: 1 527 Send Message	Ramblin Rose	Report	21 Dec 2004 10:44
Member Since: July 2004 Posts: 1 527 Send Message	Some people get so much pleasure from hurting others.Those little girls will grow up.KEEP ALL THE GIFT RETURNED.pUT THEM IN A BOX AND STORE THEM.onr day the girls will visit and they may want answers to questions.Keep you proof.They will learn how spiteful their mother was. I have the same problem with my d-i-l- since her divorce from my son.She will not allow us contact with our grandson.She never cashes the cheques we send.Presents were always binned.My son told me that she did tht whilst they were still married.Why? We have only ever met her 6 times.Never had a cross word with her during their marriage.We just don't understand her.
Member Since: March 2004 Posts: 320 Send Message	Fee	Report	21 Dec 2004 10:38
Member Since: March 2004 Posts: 320 Send Message	Did you ever hear of anything as nasty as having your presents refused? My husband sent his daughters their Christmas presents by recorded delivery and his ex-wife refused to accept them.A similar thing happened last year when they were sent back as not good enough.How nasty can you get? Just done to cause as much hurt to him as possible.

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