Visitation (Christianity) Puns

yesterday i had a crazy dream. i dreamed of being in a dark room sitting on a metallic chair, and there was a very large screen in front of me. i didn't know where i was. the only light source in the room was the light coming from the screen. i tried to move and stand up but i couldn't. i felt as if i was "glued" to the chair. the room waseither white or gray, i can't tell exactly. it looked completely empty. no patterns, no writings on the walls, nothing.

then i saw a faceless humanoid, wearing a dark gray uniform, coming near the screen. the being had a large head. i don't know if it was a male or a female. the being had no eyes, no ears, no hair, no mouth, nothing... just a large head with no facial features. the skin was pale gray. it had three thick fingers and wide shoulders. i was very scared and tried to yell at the being but i couldn't. i felt as if i lost control over my entire body and i was completely helpless. the being then pressed something on the wall near the screen and it started displaying strange things.

i saw very graphic war scenes from different periods of time, i was able to recognize some of them being from WWII, the Vietnamese War and the current Syrian civil war. then things took a bizarre turn. the screen started showing non-human looking crafts, of enormous sizes flying above cities and there wass a mass panic worldwide. the most bizarre spaceship i saw was a long craft flying slowly above a city. the best way i could describe it is that looked like a "dark multi-layered craft" with many small yellow lights or windows. some people were filming and watching, others were running for their lives. the scenes of panic were so scary. then other types of crafts showed up. some were cylinder-shaped, cube-shaped, sphere-shaped, crescent-shaped and diamond-shaped. they started doing fast and unbelievable maneuvers in the sky and fighting each other.

the screen went black all of a sudden, for several seconds. then it showed a map of the world. there were no borders between countries. all the continent were colored in blue, then i heard a telepathic message, possibly from the faceless being, saying that "humanity will put all its differences aside and unite". that's all i heard. then i woke up from the dream sweating badly.

In about a week from now my family and I are going to go on a road trip around mid-west America and a total of 3 of our stops have at least something directly related to dinosaurs and/or paleontology. However one of them in particular is an entire museum dedicated to paleontology and geology.

This wouldn’t be a problem if it weren’t for the fact that my parents are evangelical Christians and my mom just today unironically used the term “evolutionist” in front of me. She said that in the resulting awkward conversation that followed me explaining what a theory means scientifically. The sad thing is she’s the head science teacher at the Christian private school I just graduated from.

That recent conversation and remembering the trip we’re about to go on made me realize that me and my habit of correcting stupidity I hear are probably going to die inside if I have to keep my mouth shut the whole time.

Any tips on how to survive this trip without starting a war arguing over Darwin “doubting” or similar stupid points?

As for why I’m still closeted and don’t just tell them I’m atheist. Well for one- I’m also trans and if I’m coming out about one thing, everything else is going to spill too. And two, my current plan is to move into college which is a safe 10 hour drive away from them and then come out because given all the derogatory shit I’ve heard come out of their mouths I do NOT feel any sort of safe coming out to them in person.

I am on my way to visit Lebanon for the first time with my American/Lebanese/Palestinian wife. Will we have any issues visiting Christian towns? I really want to visit Bataroun, but want to make sure we won’t run into any out of the ordinary issues. Wife wears Hijab… don’t know if that makes a difference. Thanks guys!

Just visited that sub for the first time and what I read there depressed me. Teenagers being told that they are right to be ashamed for touching themselves. Kids afraid to death because of a thought that crossed their mind that they are ashamed of, and being told to just pray it away instead of seeking help. The fear and shame in that sub is palpable, and it's disheartening.

These people are literally mentally damaging children. Kids who are brainwashed like this turn out to be like the dude who shot up a bunch of massage parlors in GA killing women to rid himself of "temptations". How is this still something that's allowed to happen in 2021 in America?

Edit: it was actually /r/Christianity.

Edit 2: I've just been banned from /r/Christianity. As far as I can tell I didn't say anything that broke the rules so it was probably this thread that they banned me for.

Edit 3: I'm not that interested in overturning my ban as I don't wish to ever visit that sub again.

Edit 4: I was banned for some comments that made it clear I no longer believe in the Christian faith and offered some of my honest opinions about it. This is fine, every subreddit can have their own rules about who to let in or not. I made this thread long before I was banned, however. The purpose of it wasn't to complain about a ban. As I mentioned above I don't care about being banned. The purpose was to point out the atrocious rhetoric happening in that sub that is likely to mentally harm and radicalize youth.

I recently had twins. They’re 2 months old and the first grandchildren on either side (and will be the only for a while unless we have more)

My in laws have a terrible marriage. They’re always screaming and fighting with each other, no matter the place or the time, and my father in law is an alcoholic. He’s never put anyone except himself in danger but I am very nervous leaving my kids alone with them. Every time we go to visit I’m always around. I don’t hover, I allow them to get quality time with both of them and only take them back when they are handed back to me or it’s time to breastfeed.

My parents however get unsupervised visits. The few times we’ve gone somewhere or gone on date nights we’ve left the twins with my parents.

My mother in law recently called and asked if she could bring the twins to her house for some random reason I don’t even remember. I think to show them off to her friends from out of town. I told her I was busy that day and she offered to pick them up and watch them and I told her I was uncomfortable. This caused a fight and she accused me of keeping her grandchildren away from her and playing favoritism with my parents, which I can’t deny that I may be.

Am I being unreasonable and an asshole?

Just had a court-appointed advocate from CASA come over to our house to speak to us and do a walk-through, something CPS has already done because they were called when we left their home. CPS found the claims to be false and deemed me to be a fit parent. They even recommended therapeutic services for my 6 year old because of the trauma, of which we have taken full use.

My son has been consistent in telling CPS, his therapist, and now the court advocate that he was hit with paint sticks and belts by their hands, and that he has witnessed my father push me into a window. Even with this knowledge, the lady from CASA has told me that grandparents rights in TN are becoming more prevalent, and most cases she sees they are granted mandatory visitation.

CPS services keep giving me the run-around when I try to talk to someone about signing a medical-disclosure agreement for my son’s therapy so we can use it in court. What else can I do to make sure I can fully prepare my lawyer?

I just want to hear every ones theory. This topic is absolutely fascinating. I can't get enough and I can't find an answer to this question. ufos are here and they're not ours. Why are they here. Are they travelers just passing through? Are we an experiment? An imminent invasion? Or is it somthing entirely diffrent? Maybe reddit can help solidify this.

Comment why aliens would visit earth and their reasons behind it!

LONG post, but in a nutshell.. am I wrong for not wanting to continue EOWE visitation with my SS12 while DH is away for 12 weekends? Also, how do I communicate this to DH?

DH has chosen to pursue a lifelong dream that will take him away for 12+ weekends later this year. When discussing it, he essentially said, well you’ll still be taking SS, so you won’t be alone, right? I attempted to deflect and explain that SS comes here to spend time with his Dad and that it’d be unfair to take time from BM (although I know she wouldn’t mind) and he looked/sounded visibly upset and said, “When you become a parent, you’ll know that every parent needs a break and besides, I thought you’d want/like to spend time with SS”

Honestly this was not in my plans. Firstly, SS lives a 2 hour round trip away and BM doesn’t contribute to driving. Second, the weekends are a time of relaxation for me and frankly SS being here without DH just sounds exhausting and like more work, especially having no kids of my own (more cleaning, separate meals, having to entertain, etc). I could tell by DH’s reaction he was upset, and I don’t really know how to get him to understand my perspective. Since it is so important to him, I would be open to doing a few daytime activities (not the entire weekend EOWE) while he is gone, but I don’t think that will appease him as he expects visitation to be as normal.

Backstory: I’m a childless 30 year old stepmom. DH and I have been together 3 years with SS12 who lives primarily with BM. From the beginning of our relationship I made it clear that I was there to support DH as a parent, but that I wasn’t trying to have a parental role in SS’ life (more of a kind/trusted adult). DH was fine with this, but after we got married we went through a tough first year of not only me realizing he was a Disney Dad, but navigating him bulldozing my boundaries and neglecting my needs in the relationship.

Also, being an introvert if I’m honest I find SS12 difficult and tiring to be around at times as he has been parented VASTLY differently to anything I am used to. While a good kid, he has severe ADHD and unless he is on his gaming console he will be velcroed to adults talking, interrupting and/or following them around while making loud noises 24/7. He refuses to knock for the kids around his own age on our street and as such requires adults to be his playmates for the usual activities kids would do with their peers (football, basketball, etc) - DH is happy to indulge hi

Background: I’m (F42) am not my sons (M6) biological mom. My ex wife (F32) is. He had a biological father who is not involved in his life. I have been his parent since he was 2. Ex walked out 1.5 yrs ago to move in with her girlfriend (not aware of). We shared visitation until March of last year when my ex refused to let me see my son. Nov last year court awards me visitation. April this year divorce and visitation schedule finalized.

The issue. Summer visitation schedule is based on when my son gets out of school and and a biweekly setup. School calendar states his last day is June 9. On may 31st my ex tells me he gets out on the 3rd. (She states she just found out on the 28th) I have made non refundable plans in April/may of this year. I asked her to please leave the schedule as if he got out on the 9th as I had plans. She refuses. I ask her to switch weeks and she refuses as this would require me to have him for two week in a row and then she would as well. The only way she is willing to let me have the week I have plans is if I give up two weeks of my summer visitation.

The kicker: I called my son’s school and he doesn’t get out on the 3rd. He just won’t be punished if he doesn’t go back to class after his kindergarten graduation on the 3rd.

Am I the AH for getting the courts involved with this?

Edit: if I hadn’t already paid and book the June trip, I wouldn’t care so much about switching

Here's what happened:

Last summer, because of COVID and the fact that I was working from home, we took my 2 stepchildren a few extra days a week. It was fine, but towards the end I started getting annoyed because the ex-wife kept all her child support and those grocery bills were skyrocketing, plus the kids were a little needy with meal prep/cleaning up after themselves and a lot of that fell on me. (background info, my 2 kids are 16&15, and my stepkids are 14&11.)

So last night my husband's ex calls and goes "so are we doing what we did last summer with you taking the kids more?" and so he tells her that we're both going to be back to work full time in person and she says "well [16 & 15 year olds] will be there" and goes on to say that she doesn't want them to be home alone all day. But her parents live next door, and they'll be home alone sometimes at my house too because my kids won't necessarily be there either.

So husband gets off the phone and asks why I seem so mad, and I say that 1. mom needs to drop them off then (she moved an hour away last summer), 2. mom needs to send them with groceries or money for them, and 3. he needs to actively parent them, my kids aren't babysitting them and I'm not planning on cleaning up after them again.

He says he's been wanting to see them more, and I shouldn't care so much about what messes they make. (I think it's worth noting that mom says she doesn't want them home alone "because they make messes" so I'm not the only one annoyed about this). He says he doesn't want to be "in the middle" and I say that he's supposed to be on my side because we're married and we should make these decisions together. Fight spirals from there and now we're not speaking.

AITA?

Hindus, on the other hand, never had any beef.

I dated a guy for 4 years and we have a child together. Throughout our time dating his mother has been very manipulative. This only got worse after having our daughter. I can write a laundry list of things she has done or said that are very toxic, but to get to the point, my child’s dad and I broke up about 6 months ago. The dad gets our daughter 1-2 weekends a month. I have been taking our daughter to his moms once a week in order to keep that relationship for my daughters sake. Recently I started dating someone and the manipulation and harsh words have gotten incredibly bad. She has said outright racist comments, cutting down my character and mothering abilities. I have decided to cut ties and no longer have this woman in my life for my mental health. I have no qualms with my daughter seeing her grandmother when her dad has her. He takes her over there and they stay the night every weekend he has her. She started texting me saying I am hurting my daughter by not bringing her over there and I don’t care about my daughter by involving her in this. I had to block her but today I come home with a letter on my door saying that she just wants to see her granddaughter and if I can just send her outside she can pick her up and bring her back. I am uncomfortable with this. Am I the asshole for not bringing her over anymore?

A little background: My daughter is 3 years old, and her father and I have been separated since she was 2 months old. He was emotionally and mentally abusive throughout the relationship we had and has a few personal issues that followed him to court. Because of these, he is only allowed supervised visitation with her from 10-2pm every other weekend on Saturdays. This has been in place for about 2-2 1/2 years and he has used it less than 20 times.

Current issue: I let him come see our daughter while she is with my mom during my work hours sometimes if he has missed a lot. My daughter loves him and loves seeing him and I do want them to have a relationship. The only rule I have is for him to ask me first. Well yesterday, he called my mom and told her I said yes and when I went to pick my daughter up he was standing outside with her. I get off at 5:30, and he showed up at 5. I had made plans, and was needing to leave. My daughter throws and fit and says she hates me because I am trying to leave. My mom said that he had told my mom he would only be there for 15-20 minutes. So, I told my daughter “daddy has a few things he has to take care of tonight, so give your hugs and kisses so we can get our things done too”, before she could respond, he said “no I actually don’t have any plans at all tonight, I can spend time with you”. And once again, she’s telling me over and over she hates me until I finally just pick her up, put her in the car and leave. In the midst of this, he says “don’t worry, just be patient, you will be living with me soon” which is a complete lie because the courts will not grant him any alone time.

What do you do about the other parent being manipulative towards the child and overstepping any boundaries put in place? Or disrespecting your time/home?

I hope this is pertinent here. It's a little less serious than most of the subreddit,. the funny but crazymaking true story of an atheist friend of mine, when his very-Christian Mother comes to visit.

Basically — Jesus!

There was a recent post here about someone’s brother being visited by the FBI but the comments were locked due to some stuff being said about religion.

I just wanted to add that something similar happened to my dad. He was at the 1/6 rally, although he says he was at another part of the rally not at the capital building. He had a whole outfit going on and even showed up in the Trevor Noah show because of it 🤦🏽‍♀️ He ended up having a heart attack in the middle of the freaking rally as he was on video chat with my step mother. What followed was some of the scariest hours of my life. I felt insane and had no idea what to do as I live in Virginia and had no idea what hospital he might be at (someone called an ambulance for him). I took the day off work and was getting ready to just drive wherever I needed to go to find him but thankfully my stepmother, who lives closer to DC than I do, found someone to accompany her to look for my dad. My sister and I spent the rest of the day calling hospitals and calling his cell to see if anyone would pick up. At some point in the night he regained consciousness and was able to make a short call to my stepmother.

Fast forward a couple weeks later (yes, my dad ended up being okay even though he had some cracked ribs and a procedure needed to be done on his heart) and my sister is talking to my step mother on video chat when an FBI agent shows up at my dads house. I’m telling you, I felt like my dad was gonna give me a heart attack that month. The FBI agent came to talk to him about his involvement in 1/6 and about his backpack that was left in the ambulance he rode in. I guess they thought it was a bomb and they gave the backpack to the FBI. 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️ Needless to say, it’s one of the most insane things that has happened to my family and I hope my dad learns his lesson about being involved in those kinds of things. 😓

Edit: Thank you to all of those who were kind and supportive towards me and this situation. That day was one of the scariest days of my life. To those of you who’s only comment was that my dad should be put in jail or that you wish something would happen to him so he could learn a lesson, shame on you. Try to have some empathy for those going through something like this. I’m not excusing my dad being involved in this, but he almost died. I don’t know exactly where he was location wise, only that my sister called to tell me something had happened to him around the same time I was looking at the live c

hi !! I'm rebekah, 13 years old and I have a question about my rights regarding my family. My parents separated a long time ago, and I was in shared care spending a week at mums and a week at dads. when I was around ten, I stopped living at my dads as it wasn't very safe for me and I wasn't doing well there. my father didn't like this, and he asked to have no contact at that time. it's been almost four years, still very little contact. I had a younger sister who is still living with my father and his wife. I really want to have touch with her as we were very close. my mum wanted to go to court about this but was unsure it would help, and if my dad would handle that well. I have asked my dad via email if I could see my sister but he has said no each time, or given an unrelated answer. I would like to know what my rights are as a child/young teenager and if there is anything I can do about this. If you know anything about the legal side of this, or what I can do about this, please let me know, thanks :)

I can’t understand why Christians still buy into the “KjV only” lie. For a while, they were the gate keepers here in America through the 1950s up until the late 90s even. But now in the age of the internet, they have become exposed like a drunk naked person un-aware they are in the middle of the street under a spot light. If you visit their “1611 .com” or “KingjAmesAV .com” websites, you will be mis-informed with claims such as “we use the Syrian manuscripts and the other Bibles use the “corrupted” Egyptian manuscripts. This is easily disproven though. Thousands of ancient manuscripts are now available to scholars and the public on the internet. Dr. Bart Ehrman has a lecture available and he lays out beyond reasonable doubt how the King James Bible is actually the most erroneous Bible in English. The irony, is that most King James Only churches who claim that 1611 is a divine year, do not even read from the 1611 version, but from the 1800s version. This is because there has been nearly 500 word changes (not spelling) over the span of 2 centuries. I left a link that lays this out beyond all doubt …

https://youtu.be/m7oTr1Wm2A0

Edit: sorry about the random “m” Edit 2: Looks like it’s r/christian, not “Christianity “

The sub keeps getting suggested to me because I guess I visited the sub once for some reason, and because the questions in the advertised posts are so asinine, I keep going back, so it keeps suggesting the sub in my feed. It’s a gnarly cycle. The level of brainwashed idiocy is overwhelming.

I suggest you don’t visit the sub. It’s worse than r/nonewnormal. Kind of worse than anything I’ve ever seen online. Sounds like I’m being dramatic, but I’m not.

I’m making a vow not to click again.

This post isn’t useful in any way but I just wanted to vent to people who understand what I mean. Thanks for listening.

I posted a few days ago about my situation and have periodically been reading replies and they’ve been amazing and helpful.

Yesterday, she showed up out of nowhere wanting the baby to go to her house. I told my boyfriend no, and she can come in. She said she’s too tired and then said tomorrow (which is today) she’d show up and just take the baby so she doesn’t have to wait on anyone.

Now she’s threatening to sue us for visitation.

It makes NO sense because I’ve offered a million times for her to come see the baby.

She was outside yesterday but was too tired to come in and see the baby.

This is the woman who could’ve killed my premie baby by giving her a bottle full of baby food and cereal at barely a month old.

And the woman who a week and a half ago fed her baby food again and lied to me about it.

The doctors said no baby food yet. She’s not ready. She’s saying doctors can be wrong. But of course SHE knows everything.

I’ve never been involved in anything legal, I don’t know what to expect if she goes through with it.

I’ve got proof of us offering her to come over literally anytime she wants to, but she won’t. We aren’t denying her visiting the baby? She can whenever she wants.

She’s just mad we won’t take the baby to HER HOUSE so she can play mom for a few hours.

I texted her and told her the baby isn’t going anywhere without me anymore, especially after she lied about giving her baby food. I’m not comfortable around them or at their house, so they come see her if that’s what they want.

Can she really get anywhere with this? I don’t know if she’s just trying to scare us or what. But really, threatening fo sue your own son because you messed up and you’re too lazy to come see the baby?

Partly me venting but also need advice. I’m kinda nervous about this 😩

My family doesn’t want to get vaccinated. No Tdap, no flu, no coronavirus. That’s fine and that’s their choice, but I’m considering telling them that their visitations will be heavily limited and restricted until my baby is older.

I feel like a terrible person though and feel so conflicted. My babies health is my priority, but I’m so worried about causing a rift. May be some residual anxiety from them from my upbringing with them mixed in here…. I want them to experience her, she’s the first grand baby on both sides, but I’m just not willing to risk her health for their feelings.

My husbands family is fully vaccinated, so I’m not concerned about them.

Am I overreacting? Any of you out there taking the same precautions??

I’m still hearing the crazy saber rattling that states Islam is this huge threat to America even though Evangelical Christianity has already infiltrated our government and continues to push their magical belief system on us all.

Why are they getting a pass?

Edit: “Christianity” as “worse than Islam” is not the point. Currently Evangelical Christianity is a greater threat than Islam.

Bit of a rant and I'm a poor story teller so bear with me.

My parents were not religious in their early adult life. They, drank, went to concerts, discos, parties, and all that early 80's stuff etc. During this time, my uncle (dad's brother) made a friend that was pretty religious and decided to go to church with him. My uncle "finds the lord" and is a "changed man". My dad and his brother are very close....so a few weeks pass and my dad ends up joining them at church. My dad "finds the lord" and begins to change his lifestyle. They're basically obsessed with Jesus at this point. A few years pass and both of them are now up to their necks in christianity. Mom gets pregnant with me. I'm born and immediately slapped with a cringey biblical first and middle name. I'm enrolled in a christian school and forced to attend up to 11th grade. My five younger siblings are all forced to do the same.

Ten years pass after I was born. my uncle has dedicated his entire life to christianity at this point. He leaves his job in the medical field to attend bible college and start his own baptist church. He has 7 kids (total 13 but 6 were miscarriages). All of which are homeschooled. (Who needs math and science when you have prayer, AMIRITE?).

My parents square off with my uncle and his family to see who can raise the most christlike kids. They teach purity culture, everything is a sin, no rock music, no theatres, no girlfriends until college, no violent movies or video games, no skateboarding, etc. It completely ruins my childhood (and my cousins childhood).

I just learned that my uncle was diagnosed with a terminal cancer and I am having a hard time being upset.

This guy dedicated his life to god, opened a church, lived life according to the bible, raised his kids to all be religious, preached hate, and kicked people out of the church if they were found at casinos or bars. Yet god has a plan to kill him off in his early 60's and leave his kids/wife behind. This guy is the reason my childhood was absolutely fucked and why I was set up for failure from the day I was born.

I'm actually entertained by the irony

Dear christians, please read the post and the comments with the understanding that, even if your denomination doesn't practice all of these, they are all extremely damaging and all are "bible-based". Deciding not to obey the bible completely does not negate the fact that all of these (and others including slavery and child sex slaves) are supportable by the bible. This is not a case where "not ALL christians" can be used as an excuse. Almost all of this is backed up by the bible and much of it is caused by bible doctrine even if not a direct result of it.

Christianity has a lot of extremely psychologically damaging teachings. I'll do as quick a rundown as I can, which doesn't say much because 'quick' is not my strong suit. Hopefully others will add to the topic in a better way than I in case TL;DR. I have highlighted the "high points" for a semi-TL;DR.

• Christianity teaches that you are born bad from birth, that you have no redeeming qualities and that, because of two people six thousand years ago, you are unlovable, unworthy, and basically broken garbage. That is staggeringly devastating for mental health and leaves many people suicidal.
• Christianity often teaches two conflicting viewpoints on "salvation" because the bible does. On the one hand, it's "yahweh wants everyone saved" but then there's nothing you can do to be "saved" except believe--and then the bible says jesus deliberately made the truth hard to discern so some people will go to hell. The bible also says some people were deliberately made to go to hell, to "show the glory of yahweh" in the people he did CHOOSE to save. You get "saved" by his choice, not yours, but yet you have free will and choose... it's contradictory and terrible.
• Christianity is unnaturally obsessed with people's sex lives. People who have sex before being married to a single person for a lifetime are "chewed up bubble gum" that nobody else can ever love or want. This makes no distinction for people like me, who were raped from childhood. I was unlovable, grotesque GARBAGE before I was even four years old, through no fault of my own.
• Christianity is unnaturally obsessed with demonizing and psychologically destroying gay people. The teachings of the bible are bad enough, but modern christians completely don't care at all about people working on the sabbath (against the 10 commandments!!), or people committing adultery (another of the 10 commandments!!) but they will factually send gay pe

Now he's always livin' on a prayer

I will try to be as brief as possible. I was granted a restraining order against the father of my children 6 months ago. He moved 5 hours away and our kids are visiting him for the first time this weekend.

I spent the last week getting ready, trying to think of every detail so there would be no problems. I sent them with clean clothes (multiple pairs of shorts and shirts, long pants and sweatshirts, swimming clothes, multiple pairs of socks and underwear - more than they would need for a weekend). I went and got them brand new backpacks and packed every thing myself. I sent new shoes. I sent freshly washed blankets. I packed stuff for them to do with their dad that we can't do at our apartment at home (sparklers, water balloons, supplies for s'mores) They brought tablets, headphones, chargers. The kids and I went to the grocery store and they picked out lots of treats and snacks to share with their cousins.

I was so anxious about how this would go. I am spending $350 on my hotel for the weekend. I prepared my vehicle, got AAA, oil change and all of that. It was not inexpensive, or easy in any way to make this trip alone, with 2 young children.

Their dad has changed the pickup day between Sunday and Monday 3 times now.

My daughter dropped a stool on her toe 3 months ago and her nail has slowly been falling off, while simultaneously healing the skin under the nail. I woke up to her dad expressing some concern and letting me know I should have been doing more to prevent an infection (I even sent her a bag of band aids for the weekend) This conversation then turned to the fact that they showed up to his house in some slides. As I've said, I did send other shoe options, but they had slides on in the car for comfort/ efficiency when stopping along the way.

The conversation continued on about how I didn't send them any weather appropriate clothes, nothing matched, and he was going to get them an outfit for the day, and I should have cared more and sent other shoes. I let him know there were shoes in their bag, and where they were located. I haven't replied since his last text telling me that I haven't changed, I'll find her shoes when I get home and feel dumb. He also let me know that "He's not the only one who sees the lack of care put into packing them. Just care about them damn."

I know when this man speaks to me this way, there is no point in arguing with him. I know what I packed and I know the tremendous effort I've put into making sure everythi

Here's the general scenario: We cared for a (non-kinship) little boy (now 7) and his sister (now 5) for a period of time before they moved to a family member's home. That home was not working out for 7, so he came back to us separate from 5. We had regular visits and/or video calls (voluntarily) for the siblings to stay connected.

After a long period of time, 7 moved to his dad's home. We stayed connected with his dad/stepmom, and saw 7 at least monthly. I'm talking they had brother stay with us about one weekend a month, plus some holidays (Halloween, Thanksgiving), spring break, where we took him on a trip out of state. They did not make any effort to connect with 5, and did not want us bringing him to see her, citing they did not trust the family she was living with.

5 unexpectedly came back to us. Almost immediately 7's parents decided we had wronged them in some way and cut off all communications and are not allowing the siblings to see one another.

EVERY time we've seen 7 in the past year and a half, he mentions his sister and how he misses her. EVERY DAY 5 carries his picture around the house and asks when she can see him/why she can't see him. It's truly heartbreaking.

I'm just wondering if GENERALLY there's anything we can POSSIBLY legally do to MAYBE get the siblings connected in any way, even phone calls.

We're in Oklahoma.