'My ex-wife wants to hurt me. I don't know if I'll see my kids over Christmas'

The more fathers and mothers that talk about their experience of alienation, the better for our society. It is in the silent spaces that abuse thrives. 

Being alienated from your children can be very difficult

Richard, thank you so much for writing about parental alienation in your column last week. I am one of those fathers you wrote about. I have not seen my children now properly for over two years. Access has always been a huge source of conflict between my ex-wife and myself. 

Most of the time when I turn up I am told ‘the children just don’t want to see you’ and I have to leave with the children watching me from the window. It breaks my heart. I have been accused of terrible things.