Mark, you’ve run out of excuses.

You claim you can’t “see to work” because of glaucoma. Yet you can track a neon pickleball flying across the court at 40 mph, no problem. Your eyes work just fine when it’s about you.

You say you can’t afford more than 15% of child support. Yet you find the money for paddles, court fees, gas, and the luxury of playing games like a teenager with no responsibilities. You’re not broke—you’re only broke when it comes to your children.

And you say you can’t complete your court-ordered domestic violence and mental health evaluations. The path back to your children is clear, simple, and waiting. But instead of facing the mirror, you pick up a paddle. Why? Because you’re terrified. Terrified of the one place you can’t spin the narrative.

Because here’s the truth: evaluators will see you for who you really are.

What a Mental Health Evaluation Would Find:

Your mock psychological evaluation already paints the picture:

• Narcissistic Personality Traits: Grandiosity, entitlement, lack of empathy. Every selfie, every “alienation” post, every claim of being silenced proves it.
• Chronic Denial & Projection: You reverse victim and offender so consistently, it’s textbook DARVO. Evaluators won’t miss it.
• Obsessive Blame-Shifting: Everyone else is at fault—Melissa, the courts, the GALs, doctors, coaches, even your kids. But never you.
• Avoidance & Defiance: Years of dodged court orders, ignored OFW messages, skipped medical appointments, and refusal to complete basic requirements.
• Emotional Dysregulation: Laughing while chaos unfolds at your own son’s basketball game; coercing Liam into signing a fake “contract” denying his medical condition.

In clinical language? You show “limited insight, impaired judgment, high risk of continued psychological abuse, and poor capacity for co-parenting.”

What a Domestic Violence Evaluation Would Find:

Your mock DV evaluation cuts even deeper:

• Coercive Control: Forcing Liam to sign a false contract against his treatment plan, weaponizing your role as “dad” to undermine his recovery.
• Psychological Abuse: Gaslighting your children, denying their reality, and ridiculing their medical struggles while promoting conspiracy-laced “health beliefs.”
• Financial Abuse: Withholding child support while bragging online, moving states, and investing in hobbies—leaving others to pay the bills you abandoned.
• Witness Intimidation & Chaos Creation: Sitting back laughing while your “buddy” heckled a gym full of parents and kids with profanities and threats.
• Pattern of Undermining: Every visit marked by increased anxiety, decreased appetite, or outright relapse in your children’s treatment.

In evaluator terms? You display “a sustained pattern of intimidation, coercion, and control that places children at emotional and developmental risk.”

So Let’s Ask Again:

Why is pickleball possible, but parenting impossible?
Because pickleball doesn’t expose you. Parenting requires accountability. Evaluations force you to face the wreckage you’ve caused.

Why do you pay for play but not for your children?
Because games feed your ego. Supporting your kids proves you’re not the victim you claim to be.

Why can you rally for hours on a court, but not sit through one evaluation?
Because you can walk away from a game. You can’t walk away from a written evaluation that confirms everything the courts already know.

Why do you invest in games, but not in your children’s health?
Because games don’t remember. Kids do. And one day, they’ll look you in the eye and say, “Dad, you chose a plastic ball over us.”

Mark, history won’t remember you as a victim. It won’t remember your memes, your hashtags, or your selfies. It will remember this: you were always strong enough to play games, but never strong enough to be a father.

And if you ever find the courage to step into that evaluator’s office, the truth will finally be written down: coercive, controlling, abusive, narcissistic, avoidant.

Not a father. Not a victim. Just a man who traded his children for pickleball.