My ex pulled the alienation thing on my kids during the year we were separated prior to actual divorce. I never gave up the fight for access and custody and overtime wore her down to where she agreed to a position that was fair to the kids.
It was not a pretty sight to see my own kids alienated towards me the times I got to see them during the separation.
Kids are resilient though and eventually they saw through their mother’s hate and gravitated towards me of their own accord.
It’s all over with now, the kids are grown and make their own choices of who they seek to assoicate with.
They’ve reconciled with their mother, but they will never have the relationship with her that a mother desires to have with her sons.
I told my hubby early on what his ex was up to, but he failed to believe me and gave her the “benefit of the doubt.” He called me “paranoid” and “jealous” well fast forward to seven years later. It’s been 9 months since the youngest has been at our house. Two years for the older two. The ex has an upper hand because she works daily in the court system so has all the court officials in her county eating out of her hand.
Looking the other way and inaction is the biggest enemy because it emboldens the perpetrator to escalate the alienation campaign. You have to recognize it immediately and nip it in the bud right away or it will result in complete alienation of all children.