I LOVE MY SON.....

All that I want to do is spend time with my son. He is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me and I love him more than anything in the world. He is nearly 4 years old, my pride and joy and my best friend. It has been almost four months since I have seen or talked to him - by absolutely no choice of my own. My son has been taken from me and we have been kept apart by his mother. He has been ripped from everything he knows and loves as a result of her hatred and resentment. For 3 months recently,  he lived with me and my family full time and I have never seen him happier. From spending every day together to having no contact at all is a gut-wrenching experience.

At this point his mother (and her parents) show no signs of letting us spend any time together and we are in the midst of a legal battle.

A condensed version of our history:

My son's mother and I started dating in April 2006. We had known each other and been friends for years. Very shortly after we started dating she found out that she was pregnant. I did not get her pregnant, there wasn't any possibility of that. I made the decision to stay with her at this point. It is my opinion that no mother should have to go through parenting alone and that no child should be without a father. To say that our relationship began as a struggle would be an understatement. I approached the situation with all the love in my heart, I gave her all of my support and embraced her and our unborn child - that was MY son. My whole family embraced her and loved her, biology was a non-issue. My little boy was born in Dec. 2006. I was in the operating room when he was born via emergency C-section. I have never been happier or more excited about anything in my entire life. I am on the birth certificate, I am that boy's father.

Things were great between us, for the most part for the next year and a half or so. We were married in 2008. After we got married, tensions increased. Arguments were more frequent and things got tougher. Through everything, I was a very proud daddy and being a father has always been the source of most of the happiness in my life. The routine eventually became that I would take my son to daycare, go to work, pick him up, cook dinner, play with him, bathe him, get him ready for bed and read his bedtime story. Eventually she had just stopped trying, she would go to work and come home and sleep, that's it. I tried everything to make her happy but her pessimism and issues from her past (there were plenty) eventually overshadowed everything. Finances were the source of most of our stress. We did argue sometimes, and sometimes she would get violent with me. The problems continued to increase between us and we ended up separating in late 2009. She moved in with her parents. I moved back with my parents and we shared the time with our son 50/50.

After numerous fights with her parents, she ended up asking me to keep our son full time so she could move again and get her "life on track" - this was in mid-April  2010. I was extremely happy having my little boy 24/7 - my whole family loves having my little boy around. At the end of June she and I met up to discuss her seeing our son more, she had only seen him maybe 10 times, for a few hours each time during the months he spent with me. After our meeting we got into an argument and she ended up lashing out at me, punching and scratching uncontrollably and she was arrested for battery. After her arrest I filed an injunction to prevent any contact so that there could be a "cooling down"  period. We had a court hearing on July 12th at which time her attorney brought up the situation about me not being the biological father, the judge responded by ordering me to surrender my son in a hour to his mother at the sheriffs office.........I have not seen him since. I love and miss him and worry that he thinks I abandoned him.......I did not and I will never give up on him.   

Update

10/31/2010

Update:

Deposition is schedules for November 4th. I will continue to fight for him. My need for monetary gifts for legal representation continues.

Please help if you can. Thank you and God bless.

$5 or $500... Your help is appreciated.