00:00In this episode, there was a time that Travis didn't see his son for, what, three weeks, a month?
00:05Wasn't in school?
00:06That has to be extremely hard on you, but hard on all the children as well.
00:10Well, yeah, but I mean, my kids were crying regularly.
00:13They miss their sibling, you know?
00:16We're really, truly a family.
00:18And then it's like one day somebody just decides that you're not anymore for an indefinite amount of time, you know?
00:25Until you have to go to, like, the system to try to get...
00:27I mean, it's horrible.
00:28It's horrible, yeah.
00:29And it's unnecessary.
00:31So that's why it will never make sense to me, but we operate around it as best we can.
00:39Sure.
00:39Do you feel like there's ever going to be a time where you could all co-parent together?
00:44I don't.
00:45I don't just because I've been given zero indication that that's what, you know, his ex wants.
00:53So if she doesn't want that, you know, there's nothing that we can do other than what we've
00:58already been doing, which is not doing anything to make this happen, you know, and less that
01:04changes, then no, you know?
01:07I mean, I am always going to do what is in the best interest of the children.
01:12So I will always, I will never be the problem.
01:16Sure.
01:16So if and when anything shifts there, great, you know?
01:21No, but I don't, I don't anticipate it.
01:24Why do you think that is?
01:26I don't know.
01:27No, I've, I've really, I used to try to understand it and try to think about where it's coming
01:34or the motivations behind it.
01:35And I'm honestly not willing to give any more energy into trying to figure that out.
01:40That is not my burden.
01:42That is not my cross to bear.
01:43That is somebody else's issues and problems.
01:46And I wish them best.
01:47And I hope that they figure it out for the sake of the kids.
01:49Yeah.
01:49Are the kids doing okay?
01:51Um, I know that my kids are like sad about what has just happened recently.
01:58I know that my stepdaughter is very affected and sad.
02:01I have not seen.
02:04Really?
02:04Yeah.
02:04So how long has it been?
02:06Um, well, they were back.
02:07And then recently, right before vacation, she didn't want them to go on vacation.
02:11So they don't come on vacation.
02:13And so I haven't seen them in a couple of weeks.
02:16Sorry.
02:17Yeah.
02:17That's tough.
02:18It's awful.
02:18Yeah.
02:19I hope, I hope it works itself out because like you said, the kids are the ones that suffer
02:23the most out of all of this.
02:24And you know, I spend so much time not talking about this, but like it's, it is sad and it
02:31does affect us so greatly and it is hurting the kids.
02:35And I'm just at this place where I'm like, it's not fair.
02:39And I don't feel like it's completely wild or out of bounds to sit here and say what's
02:45happening to me and my family is unfair.
02:48What's kind of your next steps and are there any next steps?
02:50Like you said, you, you know, you went to the, you know, the other, the, the, the justice
02:55system and things like that.
02:56You tried to kind of figure this out.
02:57They're still there.
02:58He's still trying to go through that whole thing.
03:00There's more things that are happening now that hopefully will result in this happening
03:05less.
03:06But ultimately, I don't really know.
03:07Today's Travis's 40th birthday.
03:09Happy birthday to Travis.
03:10I know and he is home because he is supposed to save his kids every year on his birthday.
03:17So I'm just hoping that, you know, it's like I'm waiting and hoping that he gets to spend
03:22the day with his kids.
03:22I hope so.
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