PERSONAL COMMENTS BY:  THE WEBMANAGER

Re: Couple battle to see granddaughter

This article attempted to solicit sympathy for the grandparents and certainly there are many important facts that are not mentioned.  There are also a couple of extremely misleading quotes from the GP's.

For instance, when the GP says "we love them" it fails to qualify their love, for it is, without a doubt, a CONDITIONAL love.  When the parents do exactly what the GP's want, they are nice to be around and appear to be 'normal people'.  However, when the parents are not able to comply, the GP's make life miserable with threatening, nasty phone calls or messages; e-mails to the parent's work place; removing the parents' pictures from their walls (I find this extremely childish.); threatening to show the child a journal when she was older.

The judge in this case must have overlooked the nasty e-mails and other pieces of documented cruelty presented as evidence because it would seem he completely missed the point.  He feels that the arguements over a coat and visiting Santa was the basis for severing ties with the GP's.  Excuse me, those incidents had little, if anything to do with the parents decision to back away from the relationship!

Another misstatement of fact: the GP's indicate THEY took care of the child three days a week.  The real truth is that the GF took care of her TWO days a week while the child's great-grandmother took care of her the remaining three.  It's no secret the GM has a job which, as far as the parents knew, she was at work most days.

Finally, the comment "rely on chance meetings" is an interesting perspective on what comes close to stalking! Their chance meetings came about by waiting at the grocery store that the parents shopped at, on more than one occasion.  Then, they joined the same health club that the parents belonged to.  Then, they had the audacity to show up at a daycare field trip, an outing that the child was attending.  Poor little one, she hadn't seen these people in over a year and I know she was quite confused.  How cruel!!!

If you were to ask the GP's what went wrong, their response would be, "We have no idea". 

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