How does anyone else deal with this?
DH pays child maintenance, spousal support and maximum childcare vouchers, which comes to around £900 a month for two DC. We have them every weekend and a night a week, pay for all clothes, shoes, coats, toys, books, gadgets etc for here, birthday presents for friend's parties, and obviously birthday presents and parties, Christmas presents.
They're his children and he's happy to pay every penny of it. But getting crap about it seems unfair. We both work ft, she works pt, hence the spousal support. She got the bulk of the value of the house when they sold it so has a bigger house and a much smaller mortgage (he knows this from the settlement where it was all out in the open).
The issue seems to arise when the DSC ask her for something and she says "Daddy doesn't give me enough money, I can't afford it"
He replies, "Daddy gives Mummy plenty of money and it's fine if she doesn't want to buy you xxxx, but you need to discuss it with her".
What else would you say? Or is best to just not engage?
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AnneLovesGilbert · 07/12/2016 13:26
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