So my son (he's 16) is leaving on Saturday to go back to the United States to stay with his dad for the summer. He will be gone for 7 weeks. I'm freaking out about it. He hasn't seen his dad for a year and his dad has filled his head with all these things he says he's going to take him to do and things he's going to buy him. Truth is, he won't do any of it and my son will end up completely miserable and wantin to come home. The exact same thing happened last year.

I hate when he's around my ex. The last few years we were married he started hanging out with people I would never be friends with and turned into someone I don't even recognize. He's a really bad influence in so many ways, and he and his wife (who's actually the girl he cheated on my with) say horrible things about me to my son all the time. It's causing me a huge amount of stress worrying about my son going to stay with him, which is making my mania worse. I can't tell him not to go if he wants to go, but I feel like he's going more because his dad has guilted him than anything else.

I don't know how to handle it and I'm afraid it's going to send me off the deep end when I put him on the plane Saturday morning.