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In 1973 Mike Krukiel's parents were among the first to be divorced under Connecticut’s new no-fault divorce laws. Mike saw plenty of fights between his parents leading up to the divorce. His father had moved out of the house and had been given the typical “visitation schedule” of Saturday overnight into Sunday every other weekend that included himself and his sibling. He was 7 years old. Time with his father was reduced from daily time together to every other weekend.
Mike's mother began a campaign of denigrating his father and projecting her feelings of hatred for him onto Mike. He was always grilled by her when returning from visits with his father. He remembers she would always make him wait by the door when his father came to pick the kids up for visitation. She would require Mike's dad to knock on the door to their house, she'd come downstairs and start an argument often resulting in her denying the visitation in its entirety.
Telephone contact with his father between visits was never allowed. If his father did call to talk to the kids, Mike's mother always intercepted the calls and questioned the children, start an argument or just plain hang up and not allow them to ever speak to him.
For years, Mike's mother convinced him that his father had started another family and had other children that he cared about more than he cared for Mike & his sister. In time, Mike would learn that his father had a vasectomy while still married to his mother (that she had authorized). There was no other family. There were no other children. The stories were all lies.
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