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Even though we were together for just 15 months at the time, it felt like we've known each other for the longest.
He was a single father and the mother was out of the picture. She was arrested before for drug addiction and DUI. She hasn't been involved in her daughter's life.
At the time the girl was 8 years ago and at some point I moved in with him and brought my cat. The daughter started displaying jealousy. To make long Story short, many things happened. The last straw was my cat suddenly dying and about 3-4 months later I find out his daughter (a couple days shy of her 9th b-day by then) poisoned my furry friend and felt no remorse at all. I broke up by then. A child already knows right and wrong at that age.
My now ex boyfriend has been getting his troubled daughter help. The girl is now 12 and it turns out, her maternal grandfather (her mom's father) is a convict with long criminal history and violent streak.
We do speak on the phone at times. He explains the progress on his daughter. Do you think things can work out one day or it's best to forget it?
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You will never forget what his daughter did and he will always defend his daughter. This conflict will never completely resolve.
This is sadly the reality. He's really a decent man and loving father. He has apologized for the situation and still gets help for his daughter. He's really trying his best. It's sad that his daughter is genetically defective and likely will never be a normal human with empathy towards others. The father himself told me they're still working on that. His daughter is learning cognitive empathy while never actually feeling it. It's sad there is no cure for people like her.
When we were younger, we thought that love was enough to make a relationship work. As you have learned, love is not enough.
That daughter sounds like a kid with trauma and abuse. I'm glad she is getting help. What she did isn't excuseable but at 8 kids still believe in the tooth fairy and Santa clause. Play pretend and have rage fits when they are tired. Mentally that child is still a baby
I'm afraid it's genetics in her case. My now ex boyfriend and I sometimes communicate with each other. We're not getting back together but he tells me about his daughter's process. They're still working on the empathy department with a professional. The girl can't feel it like the rest of us so they're doing cognitive empathy with her.
Unfortunately there is no cure if you're unable to feel empathy but it can be managed in healthy ways. She'll likely just end up complying and fitting into society just out of self-preservation.
No not with his psycho daughter still in the picture
Yeah we're not getting back together. He told me himself they're still working on the empathy department with a professional. The girl has no empathy nor ability to feel guilt. She's learning to fit in society through cognitive empathy. It's still not the same as actually feeling it. So yeah that child is screwed in the brain. No cure for that.
And off course he'll always love his child even if she's really a psychopath.
Must of gotten it from the mom or both him and her mom
You dodged a bullet but it's to bad about the cat sorry for your loss. That kid needs more than therapy which tbh i don't even think he's taking her to anymore he probably just said that to get you off his back