Separating with Kids Sucks

Keeping the details vague, as this is still a live issue in court.​After 6 months of issues following my discovery of my wife's theft/maxing-out of my credit card, draining our savings, and spreading vicious rumours about me to family and friends (among many, many other horrible things), my wife decided to sound the death knell and left with my kids in mid-June, 2018.​No warning. Just up and relocated with our kids to our hometown which is a ferry ride away, which doesn't sound far, but is enough of a barrier that when my son enters school, the 50/50 shared custody thing won't work anymore, and one of us will end up being a weekend parent.​I've been fighting the relocation since the day that she left, but honestly, I think I'm reaching the end of the line.​My lawyer has told me that, given the fact that I worked and she stayed home for the past few years, that both sets of grandparents live in the community that she relocated to, and that I happen to have a fucking penis, the likelihood that I win this case is quite low.​I just don't understand how she can steal my kids from their home and relocate with them, and I am the one who has to prove that it was a shitty thing to do. What kind of a world turns a blind eye to that kind of behaviour?​Being a Dad is the thing I am best at. I don't know how to live a life that isn't centered around my kids.​I feel like this is dislocated and rambling, and sorry to be a bummer, guys. I just don't really have anyone to commiserate with IRL. via /r/Parenting http://bit.ly/2Qn1eoY