Communication With Stepkids

Is communication with your child/stepchild made difficult because of the ex? Does he or she interfere when you write to them by withholding the letters until it suits him/her to give them to the child or throwing them away before they can be read? Do your emails get read first by the ex, even though they are addressed to the kid to his or her own personal email address? What about when the siblings try to maintain contact with each other? Are they met with the same interference from the ex? Are phone calls between the siblings allowed or does your child get hung up on when they try to call your other child/stepchild? Is your stepchild allowed unlimited texting with his/her friends and the ex's family but not yours, with the ex telling them not "to waste" texts? Are you banned from the child's personal myspace pages though the ex and his/her family is allowed open access...with the ex even going so far as to put up fake pictures on his/her profile so you don't know it's him/her (obviously underestimating your intelligence and showing his/her sad level of intelligence)?

Pretty pathetic huh?