You can hardly call Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie‘s break up amicable.
Nearly two years after their split, the former couple is no closer to finalising their divorce, and insiders say it’s all because of an ongoing bitter custody battle over their six kids.
According to court documents obtained by Daily Mail, the 43-year-old actress has been ordered to give her 54-year-old ex more access to kids Maddox, 16, Pax, 14, Zahara, 13, Shiloh, 12, and twins Knox and Vivienne, nine.
Angelina currently has primary physical custody of the children, but she has been told by a judge she must allow Brad to see the kids on a regular basis while she films Maleficent 2 in London during the European summer.
Brad is based in Los Angeles.
“He’s not OK with his kids being away for months. He feels that Los Angeles is their home base and this is where it is best for them to be,” a source told E! News, as reported by Daily Mail.
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Brad is a closet narcissist IMHO. He publicly discarded Gwen and Jen by blindsiding them while playing the sad victim who was only trying his best. He has an admitted drinking problem. He also admitted to not being a great dad in the past. We saw shades of anger and dominance issues with the Maddox plane incident --has Brad ever apologized for that? These narcissist-empath marriages are the opposite of what they appear. I suspect Brad was very uninvolved as a dad, but Angelina set up opportunities for Brad to appear the picture perfect dad in a desperate act of self deluson. I also suspect he was very authoritarian, resented any attention Angelina gave the children and not him, and was in a constant sulk that had everyone walking on eggshells.
Now, suddenly he wants to be involved (read: have control) of his childrens' and Angelina's lives, split up and fracture their time so they can be bounced around between households, taken from a mom who has consistently loved and cared for them their whole lives to live with a narcissist dad who they know is a big phoney. It's also totally illogical that for the supposed "crime" of not wanting a relationship with their emotionally and psychologically abusive father, the children are being threatened with a court mandated termination of a relationship with their mother. While I agree that children should be encouraged to see their dad and have time with him, threat of force or coercion is a terrible message to send them. Which only goes to show how much Brad really cares about his children.
Oh man.
I can only think of the kids in all this bitterness.
How hard it must be for them.
:(:(