They really don’t read like ex’s, even though they were booted out. How could a man be ok with his wife and kids being taken and given to another? There’s a CW song about that:’)
Looks to me like they’ve been “repenting from afar”. At least their wives and children have been reassigned to another man and still have a ‘family’. These men are older “Lost Boys”. They were told to ‘get out’ and they left with nothing besides their tails between their legs.
It takes a long time to undo the brainwashing they grew up with. And even when they realize it was all an abusive scam, they’re often afraid to fight for their children because the brainwashed wives and children will follow the “prophet’s” orders to testify to a consistent set of lies about the father. Little chance of getting custody of the children, and a big chance of causing major stress in the children’s lives.
That may be some of what’s going on here, when they’re telling the court what wonderful mothers the children have — it’s reducing the chance that the mothers will set up an adversarial custody fight against the father. If the fathers say that the mothers are wonderful and that the “church” isn’t abusive, the “prophet” is more likely to give the okay to the mothers to agree to place the children with the fathers.
It’s beginning to sound like a mental illness....
susie