Family at War, by Author Clive Worth,

I cannot get over the families that are at war with one another today, mostly because they have split up, these are couples like myself ,who wanted to marry the one they longed to be with then did all they could to make them happy, then a few years down the line, they become worse enemies and also your own kids who you loved so much wanted so much to see them happy, always gave them what they wanted and then they do not talk to you. What would our grandfathers and great grandfathers who fought in two world wars to make sure we all lived a peaceful happy life, think about their children now not talking and at war with one another. I have five grandchildren but only able to see the one because my two eldest, Stuart Worth, has two children, married to Amanda, who I have yet to meet but she does not want to know me and knows nothing about me, then Melanie, who is now a Blake again with two children, married to Rob Blake, down Swansea way, I have never met Rob, who again does not want to know me and knows nothing about me, ten years since they spoke to me. So why is this, well it is because their mother, (my first ex wife), has told them terrible bad stories about me that is not true, I was married to her for 11 years, never lost work and worked underground as a miner, gave her my pay, only went out on Friday Nights and Saturday with her or friends in my village of Pontyates but she has told my two eldest, who was very young then, that I never did work, that they would be very poor if she was still with me, she married into money, that keeps them happy and she makes out I was an alcoholic then but years later I hit the bottle after she kicked me out and made me homeless, My two eldest seem to want to believe her because they are so well off listening to her and doing what she wants them to but my youngest daughter is like a friend to me and has not listen to her, so I get to see her little boy, my other boy from second wife is the same, not listen to his mother, sadly this is the world we live in today, that make families split up and not talking because there are so many women as well as men, yes men as well turn kids against their ex wives,and this is so sad to see,