H has just announced this, he has a long, long list of reasons but basically he's maintaining that he is a better parent than I am. He's not a bad parent, he's perfectly adequate, but I'm not a good parent too so the chances of him getting the DC full-time are pretty low.
I've talked it over with some close friends and one of them thinks that it's just posturing, he has no control over me anymore because I'm the one who wants to separate and this is just a scare tactic to try to pull me into line or punish me. I'm hoping that once he's talked to a solicitor he will see that taking this to court will be pointless and expensive.
In your collective experience do men usually back down on this before it goes to court? I'm worried that it will all get a bit nasty and things will be said that can't be unsaid. I'm really trying hard to do all of this amicably as we have young DC so will have to co-operate on bringing them up for many years.
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Is saying "I'm going to go for full custody of the DC" just part of the script when you're seperating?
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