My husband’s mask slipped a little bit. He referred to my house as our marital home and said that marriage meant sharing everything. Victoria had warned me this would happen, that his sense of entitlement would show through once he started talking. The judge asked him why he thought he had a right to enter a home he’d been explicitly told to leave.
My husband said he was just trying to prepare his stepdaughter for the real world and that I was being overprotective. He called Lily difficult and disrespectful. He said she needed to learn that life had consequences and that I was doing her a disservice by coddling her. The judge’s expression changed when my husband started talking about Lily.
He asked my husband to clarify what he meant by preparing a 16-year-old for the real world by telling her to find somewhere else to live. My husband tried to backtrack, but the damage was done. His entitlement was right there in the open for everyone to see. The judge granted a six-month restraining order and ordered my husband to stay away from both me and Lily.