I'm curious - have any of you dealt with the ex dragging your own mental health history into the situation and using it against you? How do you handle it? That's what makes me the angriest! She is a self diagnosed bipolar. No doubt she's disturbed, and believe me - if she was truly bipolar, I am the last person on earth who would ever judge her for that. Ever. The way it was described to me, she would use psych symptoms to get out of things she didn't want to do. She would pull that with her ex inlaws and now when I have mental glitches that throw me off, I figure they'll think I'm doing the same thing. It's incredibly stressful. Now if she was truly mentally ill, I would NEVER criticize her for that or express my doubts on the validity of the things she's saying. I hesitate to even bring it up because I don't know your own personal situations or if people doubted whatever you've dealt with and I don't want to offend anybody. Right after I got married, I went full blown manic and then psychotic with dissociative symtpoms for the first time in my life. I was truly beyond control and I was forced into the hospital (thank god for that now). I've never fully recovered. So to be attacked after that? It's just plain cruel. She's doesn't even have her facts straight. I'm still pissed that it was leaked to her that I was in the hospital at all, but she used the kids as spies on us. She assumes I was depressed. It was quite the opposite. Hope that made sense - I'm getting a migraine -unrelated to this convo btw