Judgmental ? You said he was a man refusing to be manipulated. I just stated the facts that conflict with that. Hes way beyond a point of not wanting to be manipulated my man.
And hes picking a weird time, place and symbolic item to draw boundaries over. You guys try way too hard to justify stupid behavior.
I brought up you being judgemental because you said a lot about him and don't know him, you only see a short clip of him.
You stated that he's an "immature grown boy that has limited control over his life". That's a reach considering you don't know him from a can of paint.
And it also speaks to the fact that you are willing to overlook or maybe simply accept that the child support & court system are designed to subjugate men, to separate families, & keep families in turmoil. We all make mistakes, we all have lapses in judgment, we all may misjudge the character of someone we wanted to believe the best in.
He's a man because he is doing what's necessary to be in his daughter's life. He drove 2 hours to get his daughter, that's not the actions of a person not trying to do their part, he's being accountable, he's being responsible.... and that's why he's not allowing this woman to further derail or potentially threaten the security of his ride, his situation, or his freedom.
You seem to assume his reason for not acquiescing to her will, but have you asked why she insists, even after being told not to do something, that she have her way? She consistently disregarded his words & boundaries.
She does not have the right to anything that doesn't belong to her, the idea that she thinks so is a false sense of entitlement.
Who's really the immature one here?