Petrina Francis, Staff Reporter
Breaking up with a partner can be difficult, but some parents struggle to remain cordial, even when they'd rather just not have anything to do with their ex-lover.
Annie Amossplit up with her children's father two years ago because he was unfaithful and she was also fed up with phy-sical and verbal abuse. For Amos, the wounds are still open, and she says she hates "even the ground that he walks on".
"Whenever I see him, I get angrier, and the children just cannot understand why Mommy hates Daddy so much," Amos tells Saturday Life.
"I know I need to work out a way to not show my anger, especially when the children are around, but it is so difficult," she explains.
Amos says if it were feasible, she would run away away with the children to escape the unpleasant reality of having to be around her ex.
"I trusted him and he betrayed that trust, and I just don't want to talk to him.
"The children are crazy over him, so I cannot keep them away from him," she says.
Shawn Jonesrefuses to communicate with his child's mother because he says she is too difficult to deal with.
Going back to the past
"Every time I attempt, she tries to go back in the past and start the blame game. She just needs to focus on our son but she thinks that she is hurting so much, she can't see past that," Jones tells Saturday Life.
He says that while he enjoys spending time with his son, he hates having to go to the house to pick him up because he feels that he is "visiting the enemy".
But it's not all doom and gloom. Things are great between Sandra Christieand her son's father.
"Communication is not an issue for us. We know that we are not together anymore and we get on well for the sake of our child," Christie says.
"He (her ex-lover) is so considerate because he knows that I do most of the work, in terms of getting my son ready for school and helping him with his homework during the week, so he takes our son most weekends, so I can do what I want to do," she relates.
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