You are lucky. My 2 kids have very had little to do with me since their dear mother located a sugar daddy in 1979. Children will believe their mother when they are young. My 33 year old daughter is finally beginning to see thru the lies. She has no memories of living with me. My 36 year old son is also showing signs of losing the blinders around his eyes.
Mommy Dearest has been married 3 times since she left me. Her sugar daddy husband died of a heart attack 2 or 3 years after she married him.