Fast forward to the end…

Victory from narcissistic abuse and co-parenting at last! It was a cloudy day. Just as the judge read his verdict: that Avery’s father should have NO visitation or phone contact, the sun shone brightly through the clouds and the courthouse bells started playing, “Great is thy Faithfulness”. Seriously! This happened!

Now, back to the beginning of the story…

Her father had lost custody years ago. After possible sexual grooming and a freak-out-5-days where he (mis)quoted from the bible and tried to force her to stomp her beloved cats to death, to “get the evil out of her”,  (see “50 Shades of Crazy”) I filed the last protective order to keep her away from him and a guardian ad litem was assigned. I finally got the help I needed and the attention that her case deserved from there.

She was never alone with him (much) after that time. She was 6 years old. But, he still and always will fighting it, of course!

Her father went through dozens of lawyers. For one, he didn’t pay them. Secondly, once they found out what was going on, he would get rid of them when they wouldn’t do what he wanted them to do: go against their ethics.

To make a very long story as short as possible, the judge was sick of him. This was the second judge that we’d had, as our case was ongoing. The first judge left office and a new judge soon grew tired of him too. Our courthouse paperwork is probably the biggest ever seen in the county courthouse. The paperwork takes up multiple courthouse binders (and those things are a good 6″ thick or more). The GAL had to purchase a wheeling dolly to bring all of the most pertinent paperwork to court, and she didn’t bring ALL of it! The courthouse staff commented on our case, one saying that she had nightmares about it and my ex, as he had given her so much hassle. When I gave her our case number to retrieve a copy one day, she said, “Oh, I KNOW your number!”

This was a case that was unusual, to say the least. But, who’s (when dealing with someone with diagnosed NPD) isn’t?! I you are looking for victory from narcissistic abuse and co-parenting, I truly hope you can find some inspiration from our story! For the longer version of our story, see, “The Whold Story” coming soon.