Mazy B.

This App is useful for communication with an abusive personality type when you are required by court order to "co-parent" with someone that abuses you and your children. It is especially useful if the other parent uses coercive control, gas-lighting and psychological rather than physical abuse as the primary tools in their abuser tool kit. At first our abuser was really enthusiastic about using this App as he saw it as another platform to manipulate and there is nothing he loves more than to have a new venue in which to abuse. Now that he has come to see that OFW can't be manipulated and everything is recorded he no longer cares for it. He really cut back on the number of abusive, denigrating and accusatory messages that he sends me. The problem of adult survivors and their children being forced to maintain a relationship and communication with their abuser is rooted in a broken Family Court/Uneducated or Corrupt Judges problem. Other reviewers have a valid point that OFW financially benefits from the lucrative, niche divorce industry but it didn't create the industry. Family Court and our government system is the chicken and OFW is the egg. Our abuser now rants to our kids how much he hates OFW, he reads our messages to them out-loud and tells them it's all your Mother's fault for bad communication but he has blamed and denigrated me to the children for anything and everything for going on 2 decades so nothing new there. The judge tells him to stop involving the children but does absolutely nothing about it when he admits what he does, the children tell the judge he involves them and I repeatedly provide proof that he still puts them in the middle. The family court system is broken in California. Survivors should not be forced to communicate with our abuser. We should be allowed to "just leave" as everyone tells us to do and praises us for. No one seems to know about post separation abuse and how abuser's use the family court system to weaponize the children.