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Why We Are Where We Are
How things can go wrong quickly and how parental alienation plays a key role un ensuring matters always remain unresolved.
Sonny's Dad
Aug 1, 20245 min read
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The Calm Before The Storm
How quickly things can change after such a positive period and how indirectly parental alienation can creep back in.
Sonny's Dad
Jul 16, 20246 min read
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Negative Influence and Parental Alienation
Parental Alienation is driven by negativity, it's awash with people who refuse to see a positive approach to child welfare.
Sonny's Dad
Jul 12, 20245 min read
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On the very first day!
Sarah reneged immediately on our court agreement but there was nothing I could do - I hac to live with it.
Sonny's Dad
Jul 10, 20247 min read
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Fathers Day
Father's Day another day lost and another memory missed due to parental alienation
Sonny's Dad
Jun 18, 20243 min read
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The Agreement
How we came to our agreement at court on how best to proceed with the contact arrangements for Sonny.
Sonny's Dad
May 9, 20247 min read
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Grandparents Contact
Grandparent Alienation and the impact it has on innocent grandparents who just want to love their grandchild.
Sonny's Dad
Apr 30, 20244 min read
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Continued Contact
After the my first contact with Sonny for such a long time I was keen to see him more and more and more – any parent who isn’t actively...
Sonny's Dad
Apr 29, 20245 min read
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CAFCASS - The Initial Assessment
Within a couple of weeks of my meeting with CAFCASS I unexpectedly heard back from them. I knew that they were due to meet with Sarah shortly after my meeting however I didn't expect to hear from them again until their report findings were put before the courts at the next hearing. It would appear that the CAFCASS officer was being pro active. He called me to discuss what the developments were. For me it was good news, for Sarah and Margaret I suspect not so - they were losin
Sonny's Dad
Oct 12, 20234 min read
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Just Imagine - Parental Alienation
So, I often wonder about the reality of the situation Sarah and Margaret harvested. The manipulation of a child, the leverage of lazy incompetent family courts, the upset, the trauma - parental alienation. Have they ever imagined...... This post dates back to the early 70's and involves my uncle. At the time he was married to his then wife and everything was normal, relationship was fine and they were expecting their first child together. They had a little baby girl (my cousi
Sonny's Dad
Apr 4, 20234 min read
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Do I ever cry?
Not a very manly thing to say and I've never talked about this to anyone but when you have you child took off you it leaves an emptiness in the pit of your gut. A strange feeling, almost like you can't get your breath, like you can't quite satisfy your breathing, like you're heart is beating irregularly. When I sat to build this post today, it wasn't meant to be this one - there is a long list of post's for upload and this was potentially one of them but I wasn't sure if I co
Sonny's Dad
Mar 31, 20233 min read
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We did try
So, even though my intuition told me it would not be healthy to remain in the relationship with Sarah, during 2004 we did try to work...
Sonny's Dad
Mar 24, 20233 min read
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Where did it all go wrong?
The root cause of all the problems we've encountered has a simple answer to it but was never simple to resolve. Like all relationships some are made to last and some aren't - the relationship with Sarah and I just wasn't meant to be. We were together for around 2 and a half years, it stumbled on towards the end but that was basically the time scale. That period also includes the pregnancy with Sonny. We both knew that the relationship had become too fractious and during that
Sonny's Dad
Mar 22, 20234 min read
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'She said you treat her like....'
A classic example of Margaret interfering, and her ability to skew the reality of a scenario, was shortly after Sonny was born. Sarah was in hospital resting after the birth and Sonny was with her, she was there for a few days. I was staying at Sarah's house as I naturally hadn't gone back to Manchester. In the day I would spend all day at the hospital and the evening go back to her house. At this point we weren't in a relationship, we were in a strange no man's land. This pa
Sonny's Dad
Mar 21, 20233 min read
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The Family Court, The Process, The Outcome
I will begin to document the journey we took through the courts to establish and maintain contact with Sonny. This will be documented over several posts and broken down into various parts. As Sonny's Dad I knew from the very first second that Sarah told me she was pregnant that we would end up in court. Did i think that by the time Sonny was 18 that he wouldn't have spoken to us for nearly 10 years, no I didn't that but what happened at court came as no surprise in how Sarah
Sonny's Dad
Mar 21, 20232 min read
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Did Sarah & Margaret win?
Of course they did, or they think they did - They achieved what they set to achieve from the moment Sarah fell pregnant. That being said - it was a hollow victory. Did they get back at me for ending the relationship with Sarah? Yes they did. Did they get back at Sonny's paternal grandparents for not isolating me because they wouldn't force me to stay in the relationship? Yes they did Yep, and that's their victory which I'm sure that gives them a great deal of satisfaction. Ho
Sonny's Dad
Mar 21, 20231 min read
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Contacting Sonny
Since the day Sonny left I never stopped thinking about him. I think when somebody says this about another person it's hard for that other person to actually get a feeling of what that means. When I was young boy my Dad used to say that everyday when he's at work he'd be thinking about me. I used the think 'why'? I could never understand it - it's only when you become a parent do you think like that. I cannot ever count the amount of times I have woke up at 2am thinking abou
Sonny's Dad
Mar 21, 20233 min read
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Sonny know's about the site
On the 03/02/2022 I sent Sonny an email to his address letting him know about the site. The reason I sent it was that I wanted him to be aware of the site, I thought it was only right. Unsurprisingly he didn't respond, he never does and hasn't to any of our communication since September 2016. That said I'm sure he's got the message about the site which is the most important thing as I didn't want anyone to tell him they had seen it before he was aware. I didn't go into detail
Sonny's Dad
Mar 7, 20221 min read
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Where do I start?
First and foremost I want Sonny to know that I will only be detailing the truth about how his Mum behaved and her actions in the alienation. It will remain factual and correct ensuring clarity for Sonny without subjective emotion convoluting the story. Irrespective of my personal views of Sarah, based on the damaging experience, the post's on this page will detail how I feel Sarah acted in a negligent way in ensuring Sonny didn't have a long term relationship with his paterna
Sonny's Dad
Nov 28, 20211 min read
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A message from Auntie Jo
Hello Sonny, It’s Auntie Jo, I hope you're happy and looking forward to soon becoming an adult. We’ve missed you very much over the years and talk about you often. I looked forward to our time together, playing with Cooper, doing little music shows for us. I’d take you for a Happy Meal but you wouldn’t eat it until you were back at the house, sat on Grandad’s knee! We’d also go into M/cr to the City shop. Holidays were great together, you were a lovely little boy. We couldn’t
Sonny's Dad
Nov 24, 20211 min read
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