Don't be frightened

My day was going really well. Then I decided to check my email, only to be faced with a Lawyers letter from my ex-husband. He is at it again. He is trying to extort money out of me while giving me even less time with our daughter. Now he wants me to be the one to visit when he feels like allowing me to. He also stipluates that I am not allowed to stay overnight. I can however speak with her on the phone when he allows it. Control freak anyone? In the past, I would be so emotiona about the letter. I would be frightened and devastated. Now, because he has pulled this over and over again,I warned my child that this was what he was going to do next. What can I learn here? What am I to do? I know what I am not going to do? I am not going to sip from his cup of poison, that's for sure. In four years our daughter shall be an adult. This situation shall not last forever,it only feels that way, and boy does it ever. Yet, by writing about this, there is my side, another side, and that side is not a weak side as I have always believed. He has played this hand one too many times. I would love to delete this post. But I am not going to do so because I shall prevail.