TW: Raped by my daughters father
To give some background to what I had to deal with before it led up to this event we’ve always had problems since our child was 5 months. He just stopped caring being around & spending time with our child. He has been neglectful to her & mean at times too. It became worse when he’d spend all his time playing video games & soon his money started going towards that & when I found out he was cheating on me I realized his money started going towards other women as well. Our money problems got so bad my daughter & I had to share food a lot of the times because we couldn’t always afford to eat separate but once I found out about the other women I had enough. We separated but continued to co parent. One night he was really in the mood & even though I said no he raped me in front of my daughter. She was 18 months at that time. He never faced any charges because police in the small town I use to live in wouldnt & don’t take rapes especially from domestic cases very serious. He then after that started to become obsessive. All my family live out of state so I used the excuse to visit family to make my big move from him. Now I’m back in my home state, I’m currently dating my best friend I went to high school with & my daughter calls him daddy. I’ve tried letting, what I now call her sperm donor, talk to her & FaceTime her but any time we’ve tried she doesn’t want to talk or speak to him. She throws a fit. He doesn’t want to pay child support so he wants to sign his rights over. I don’t have contact with any of his family. Is it wrong I don’t want anything to do with his family & whenever they try to reach out I ignore them & never send pictures to them of my daughter. I don’t even send any to her sperm donor anymore. I’m still so angry about what happened I don’t want anything to do with any of them. Is that wrong of me to keep her away? Thank you for raking the time to read this.
For clarification yes I should have left sooner but he threatened to take my daughter, no I couldn’t get a job I had no one I trusted to watch my daughter & living in a rural town there wasn’t many daycares which we couldn’t afford anyways.
Edit: I apologize for not adding a TW it’s been added now. Thanks for everyone’s thoughts. I havent seen a therapist & it’s a rural town. I don’t want to say which state or town so I don’t give my identity away. It’s very weird how they don’t take cases like this serious it’s happened before to someone I know. Basically went through the same thing as me but worse. Her attacker is still walking a free man.
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