He bought a house and moved to Tennessee in "part-time" in 2025 - I think part of her "breakdown" was that his move shifted more of the parenting responsibilities that they had previously shared to her, so she became an almost full-time parent of 3 kids, at least one of which she said had special needs, plus she was working. Also, he was allegedly bullying her at custody exchanges and through his attorneys. And he married her friend, a pornstar, with whom they had a 3-some, and coparenting with the two of them was also probably not easy. I feel sorry for her. Though she never should have married, signed a prenup, and had babies with a twice-divorced man who already had two sets of kids and is a known cheater. |
Usually you **cannot** move out of state like that without having it negatively affect your custody, obviously (meaning Jim). Because, yes, you can't share something like week on/week off custody across TWO states. You just can't do that. But, dirtbag Jim has unlimited resources with the ability to pay for a high-powered legal team AND there is a lot of collusion and corruption in the St. Louis family court system (please see the recent articles about the federal lawsuit brought against the family court system there). So one possibility is that a corrupt family court judge in Edmonds' pocket approved the move and who knows what was done with the custody schedule arrangement. Calling Meghan "unhinged" (PP upthread) when dealing with something like that is not nice and also indicative of not understanding the workings of shared custody and family court. Him up and moving to Tennessee like that, while his kids lives have always been in St. Louis (including school, friends, etc) is a HUGE red flag. In my opinion, that was one of the steps in some nasty grand plan of his. And now to have the children ripped away from their lives in St. Louis and suddenly and permanently moved to Tennessee is absolutely unconscionable and this entire thing is disgusting (but not surprising when you are stuck in a custody situation with someone like Jim). |
Yes, it apparently was part-time earlier this year, until the kids were taken from Meghan and he could taken them to TN and complete his objective of being in TN full-time without having to deal with shared custody. Remember, he sold his property in St. Louis last year, so that was step one in whatever grand plan he had. |
Of course it's your prerogative to be an apologist and supporter of malignant narcissist abusers. |
Again, pot meet kettle. |
Please state how many years you have been in the family court system. I have been in 10 years now. I have have friends who have been in longer. I have read countless cases and witnesses many hearings. You do not know what you are talking about. Watching YouTube does not make you an expert. You also talk in these ridiculous hyperbolic absolutes "Advocating for mothers blindly at the expense of their kids is shameful", which also shows your ignorance. Your "anti-fathers for years" statement needs more backstory - until the 80s, yes, mothers were favored in family court due to things like the tender years doctrine. But now the pendulum has swung to the opposite end, especially in the cases of protective mothers vs abuser fathers, which is ALSO not good. Please read Joan Meier's published research on protective mothers and family court. It is staggering. What the post from OMB is talking about *in this particular case, and other cases like it* is what happens when you end up in the system with a powerful and wealthy personality-disordered abuser. |
This is hilarious and definitely a very juvenile "I know you are, but what am I" style of comebacks. |
Right? All PP can do is stamp her foot and scream ABUSIVE!!!! NARCISSIST!!!! WEALTHY!!!! And everyone is to believe there is some big conspiracy against Meghan instead of what she herself has presented over the last decade. |
Sorry you're confused. I'm the PP above you and I was referring to the "pot meet kettle" guy. |
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Hard to believe, but in the 2000s, Jim Edmonds was actually quite the eligible bachelor in St. Louis due to being part of a really great Cardinals team. I could see how Meghan ignored the red flags when they met.
I lived in STL and followed Meghan early on social media. Looking back, I can see now that some of her posts - even going back 15 years - were really manic. It wouldn't surprise me if she had mental illness. Add in 3 kids in 2 years, a cheating spouse and other stressors... and I imagine she just broke. To me, her oversharing on social media seems like a cry for help. I don't know that Edmonds is the monster people are making him out to be. I guess it's good he and his wife are stepping up with the kids. But to move his kids to TN at a time when they probably really need their mother and some assurance she's going to be okay... I dunno. Seems like it would've been better for them to relocate back to STL and help Meghan get the help she needs. Her family was a nice, normal St. Louis family back in the day. I wonder if they are trying to stay involved in the kids' lives. I imagine it's really tough when your daughter's ex has unlimited funds and is revered in STL. Poor kids. I hope Jim is being a good father and that their mom gets well. |
Lol, that went right over your head again. |
Nope, I knew exactly what you were doing, hence my response. Looks like it worked. Cheers! |
This is a really balanced take. The posters that keep screaming at Jim need to really look long and hard at how Meghan presents herself. Meghan has also been married 3 times. Jim was not at fault for 2 of those marriages. There has been something wrong with Meghan for years and she needs to address it. Hopefully she now has the space to do it. I agree on them leaving the area too. I know they agreed out of court, but I wish the courts had intervened to not allow the kids to have been moved from STL. At least for the remainder of this school year. There has been too much upheaval over the last few months for those kids. They deserve stability. And even if Meghan couldn’t have independent custody, it’s very unfortunate that she couldn’t have had a few hours a month of supervised visitation (maybe that is happening but she didn’t want the supervised visitation continue to be publicized). Like at her parent’s house so that the kids are at a familiar place. The kids are so young that to have Meghan disappear for months at a time isn’t good for their mental health. |
Lol. You’re so bad at pretending you know what’s going on. 😂 |
He for sure is well-known and likely has sway in STL, but he is also a known giant a-hole in STL. Local media and fans have widely characterized him as cold, difficult, dismissive, a jerk, narcissistic, insufferable, and on and on. |