Category Archives: All Confessions

The Custody Battle/Separation

June 4, 2015 By in All Confessions, Artwork About Child, Impact on Child

 

Insightful description of divorce from the child’s perspective.  

The artist describes his work:    Every child of divorced parents will relate to this…. 
S/he is made of 50% of mum & 50% of dad….Essentially, children need both parents; it is vital for their psychological development. Each time parents fight for their child, it tears them apart. Likewise when they fight for anything else…

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Art by Alex Thomas
Link to site of Alex Thomas: http://www.artbyalexthomas.com
The Custody Battle / Separation

Permission to use The Custody Battle/Separation, Art by Alex granted by Alex ThomasModay, June 1, 2015, 1:37 p.m. to use.

#152, The Custody Battle/Separation

Daily Scene

June 2, 2015 By in All Confessions, Artwork About Child

 

An artist shares their depiction of divorce!  Deeply saddening. 

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Share on Deviant Art, by artist c0baltjuce.

Link to artwork:

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#151, Daily Scene

 

Hide My Tears

June 1, 2015 By in All Confessions, Parental Experiences

 

 

A parent who is unable to see their child on a regular basis experiences emotional pain and misses their child!!!!!  Sadly, the child also goes without.  A child has the right to have a relationship with both parents!

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Shared on Letters from Daddy/Mommy.

Link to FB  page: https://www.facebook.com/sendingourlove?fref=ts

#150, Hide My Tears

A Father Left Out

June 1, 2015 By in All Confessions, Parental Experiences

 

Parental Alienation  takes place in many forms. Keeping your child from talking to your co-parent when they call is PA.  How frustrating for this parent (in this case dad) who is unable to talk to his daughter.  Meanwhile, this girl is led to believe the total lie her dad does not want to talk to her.  Will this little girl ever know the truth?  Will she ever realize the anguish and frustration endured by  her father in his multiple attempts to contact his daughter. PA is destructive to the child!  A child has a right to enjoy a loving relationship with BOTH parents! 

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Shared on Supporters of Shared Parenting Headquarters, April 8, 2015.

Link to FB page:  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Supporters-Of-Shared-Parenting-Headquarters/659255667507027?fref=ts

#149, Left Out

Even After the Divorce

June 1, 2015 By in All Confessions, Psychological Abuse-child

 

Amazing concept!  

This campaign was created in 2010 in Warsaw,  Poland.  What a creative way to reach parents.   

Campaign info:

A social campaign ‘Even after the divorce I need you both’  began 1thJanuary in Multikino and Silver Screen cinemas. It has been initiatedby Fundacja Akcja and is carried out by Platige Image studio.

The main character of the commercial prepared by Rafał Wojtunik is asmall boy missing his absent father. This image is supposed tosensitize parents undergoing a marital crisis to the fact that in suchdifficult times their child needs both of them. The campaign is part ofthe foundation’s actions aiming at popularizing sharing childcare afterthe divorce.

As part of the campaign, the spot will be shown regularly (9 000 times) from 1 January until 18 February in cinemas.

Producer: Platige Image; Marta Staniszewska, Marcin Kobylecki
Executive Producer: Tomasz Baginski

Director: Rafal Wojtunik

Story: Krzysztof Slazinski, Robert Kucharski
Music: Marcin Przybylowicz
Sound mix: Genetix Studio

3d Team:
animatik & animation: Andrzej Zawada
secondary animation: Daria Zawada
concept art: Rafal Wojtunik
models: Rafal Kidzinski
textures: Pawel Lewandowski, Michal Gryn
rendering, composition and concept art: Rafal Wojtunik
poster artwork: Jakub Jablonski, Rafal Wojtunik

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Link to project in Warsaw, Poland.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/394866/Social-campaign-Even-after-the-divorce-I-need-you

#148, Even After the Divorce

Picture of Divorce

May 31, 2015 By in All Confessions, Artwork About Child

 

One picture speaks a thousand words!  Which words are best?

Which aspect of this pic stand out more?  

The word Divorce in red letters?  

The very thick notebook indicating the divorce has been in process for a while?

In an office setting-an attorney office perhaps?

The split family?

The divided house?  

The lack of walk-way to each parents’ side of the house?  

Or, the thunderstorm with a bolt of lightning?  

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# 147, Picture of Divorce

 

Self Portrait of Divorce

May 31, 2015 By in All Confessions, True Confessions

 

An artist shares her experience with divorce.  A convoluted and personal representation that is well done!
“I drew this while attending a “How to Help Your Child Cope With the Divorce of Their Parents” course as a part of my divorce’s legal procedure (I think it might have even been mandatory) I was so sad for my daughter during that time. Much sadder than I was for myself. And actually that’s never stopped being the case. I was a child of divorce as well and know just how grueling it can be.Artistically, I was so mad when I discovered that I had forgotten to include the chain on the left hand side. I had intended to subliminally put a little bit of optimism into the piece by vaguely hinting at a butterfly – ya know, “You go through this horrible experience and come out the other side ready to spread your new wings”, that kinda thing. Hopefully it still has that impact but just even more subliminally. (ha ha)Anyway, I’m not exactly sure what the image means except that the individual is obviously in an uncomfortable and scary place and they were put there by something outside of their control.I like this image so much, I used it as the cover for one side of my self-published flip comic-book, “Nepotism/The Labyrinth” I can’t even begin to guess how people reconcile that image with the word “nepotism”.”

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Deviant Art by beango.  Self_Portrait___Divorce_by_beango.jpg
Link to artwork: http://www.deviantart.com/art/Self-Portrait-Divorce-48229377
 
#146, Self Portrait of Divorce

No More Fighting

May 31, 2015 By in All Confessions, True Confessions

 

Horrific awakening!

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All parents fight in front of their children.  To say my divorce was less than ideal is an understatement!  After we decided to divorce, I admit that we fought in front of our children.  We didn’t just fight in our two children’s presence.  We fought VERY badly.  I never realized how terribly we talked to each other until one day.  On a beautiful peaceful afternoon, our youngest was playing with her dolls in her room and when all of a sudden I heard her screaming.  At the top of her lungs.!  In the few seconds that it took as I rushed to her room, I tried to figure out who she was talking to because we were in the house alone.  The words she was saying were terrible. Very terrible!  All of  a sudden it hit me!  Like a ton of bricks!  Like I had been sucker punched in the stomach!  The words she was saying were the words my ex and I exchanged the night before.   My heart stopped!   My dear sweet absolute angel daughter was talking like the devil. She was just repeating the words she had overheard when me and my ex were fighting.

I realized then that things need to change.  That I need to change.

God is good!  There came a window of opportunity and I was able to have a heart to heart talk with my ex.  He agreed that we could not have our 4 year-old fighting like someone who is possessed by the devil.  Even though we are unable to live together, one thing is true.  We love our children!  A lot!

Things are still not perfect with my ex.  We still disagree. But….we have agreed to disagree.  Miracle of miracles, we have been able to have a friendly relationship.  For four years now.  Our children come first.

That event-hearing my daughter speak like the devil himself changed my life.  I will NEVER feel like that again.

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#145,  No More Fighting

Take the High Road

May 31, 2015 By in All Confessions

 

Advice that may be easier to give than follow!

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Take the high road and pay no attention to what ‘they’ say.

All that really matters is what you think about yourself and how you treat others.  This is the advice that I TRY to follow.  I have to remind myself that I love my daughter MORE than I HATE my ex.

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#144, Take the High Road

Do the Judges Know?

May 31, 2015 By in All Confessions, Family Court

 

The utter travesty of the Family Court System lives on deep into the night …..

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Do judges know what it is like to cry yourself to sleep every night because your child is not there, do they know what is like to wake up every morning in tears cause your child is not there, do they know what it’s like to fall into tears when flipping through a channel and seeing his favorite show on, do they know what it’s like sitting alone and the only sensation you can feel is the smell and hear the innocent voice of your child that was unconstitutionaly taken away by a corrupt system and a lying mother? My answer and best guess is NO!

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#143, Do the Judges Know?