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I couldn't even put all of what happen in here but yes I was played.
AUNT was suppose to get custody. She had unsupervised visits and would pick up FS10 from me and drop him off - ended up being like every weekend. Well she started talking to me and then coming in to talk all the time. She would tell me all this stuff about Bfamily and how they were racist etc. She would tell me SW told her all kinds of things and since parts of what she told me I KNEW the SW said I believed the rest.
I ended up getting in a big thing with the SW because they weren't allowing a visit for the holiday even though he'd had weekend visits and he was asking for the holiday. What was the difference if it was a holiday or the weekend.
Turns out the aunt NEVER ASKED for the visit and then when the SW asked her the Aunt didn't want to comply with the guidelines of who could be there. BUT AUNT was only telling me that she kept asking and SW wouldn't let her because it was a holiday.
THEN FS said he didn't want to go. He wouldn't say why at first but then later we found out that she would go days without talking to him and she would yell at him and try to pit him against us and he knew it was wrong. So SW said no visit.
THEN found out all of the things aunt said were all lies - in fact SHE was the racist one. Aunt then called and said she was coming over and wanted FS to tell her to her face that he didn't want to go with her. I told her no, she said I was brain washing him etc, I said SW said no visit and my job was to do what she said and put HIS needs first (he was shaking and scared to see her.) She threatened all kinds of things and then wrote a FOUR PAGE letter to the MAYOR full of all kinds of crazy allegations.
It was obvious she was crazy, (They later found that she had a mental illness) she was removed from being a placement option... and I learned.
BUT that was over like 3 months of craziness. NEVER again will I fall for something like that.
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Single Mom to 1 amazing, strong, intelligent 10 year old
Fparent Certified in 2003
Adoption (of 10 year old) finalized 4/19/6
FS placed 6/25/7 (3 YO now) - TPR done on 1-31-9
(FS's 10 years old step brother was placed at the same time and returned to his own relatives in 5/08)
Placements and respite for ages 2-16
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