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No you are about right cloverjo unfortunately .
She has stopped my contact with my niece before over a storm in a teacup and I didn't see her for months.
Then my niece contacted me herself on fb and arranged to see me and contact started again -in hindsight I realised she had done this without her mum knowing ,which she would have hated . This time her mum has blocked my phone number from her phone and has blocked me from her and her older daughters facebook so my niece has no way of contacting me . ...and I haven't even done anything. I haven't got involved with the falling out or taken sides.It's very hard to come to terms with and there isn't anything I can do. I have considered contacting the social services who are already involved with the family but I don't know what it would achieve. And if it ever came to it wired ,I would take my niece in ,in a heartbeat. Just to be able to resume contact with her would be fabulous. I shudder to think how things are going for her now.
her mum has never been that bothered with her and she is stopping us from seeing her out of spite to all of us as my brother has moved on.
The mum has 6 kids (my niece is the youngest) and god knows how many grandchildren so she has family coming out of her ears. We are a small close knit family and my niece was a part of our small loving family and now she has been taken from us. it makes me very sad.