Then my phone started lighting up with calls and texts. Mark: “Where’s Lily???
What is all this?”
Me: “That’s what your child support pays for.
Lily’s at my sister’s for the weekend.”
Mark: “You can’t do this! It’s my visitation time!”
Me: “And it’s your obligation to support your daughter. You made it clear your vacation was more important.”
He completely lost it, calling me “childish” and “spiteful.” Then Jessica got on the phone, crying about how they’d already paid deposits for hotels in Paris, Rome, and Barcelona.
Later that evening, my sister told me Mark had shown up at her house demanding to see Lily.
She refused to let him in. The next day, I got a string of bank notifications: three months’ worth of child support payments had been deposited at once.
Then a text followed:
“Happy now? Don’t ever keep my daughter from me again.”
My mom said I’d taught him a valuable lesson about parental responsibility.
My best friend thought I’d gone too far by using visitation as leverage and said I should’ve just taken him to court.
My brother called it “savage but justified.”
So now I’m wondering — was I the bad guy for sending supplies instead of our daughter when he tried to skip his child support payments? Source: brightside.me
