I'm fed up.
Completely and utterly fed up with my life as a single parent.
It's not the parenting , I love my children and I will do anything for them but I am sick of trying to co parent with such a selfish twit.
Im trying to make it as easy as I can for my children but it's two years in now and I'm running out of strength.
He sees them eow for 24 hours.
In that time he will linger here if he can or try and drag me off with them - I didn't mind this until I realised that he's using my house and me as extra childcare etc.
He's his own home and his own life yet picks and chooses us when it suits him.
He's been with the ow since he left - kids haven't met her.
Yesterday was his day - I was ill. So instead of just taking the kids to his he stayed. Cooked lunch , done some chores and checked on me every while or so. Decided to set up camp with the kids in my room whilst I was I was napping - to watch tele. Perfectly good one in the lounge or at his own house !!!!!
Very kind in some ways in others it just confuses the hell out of my kids.
This is a regular occurrence in spates across the year and I just want to be able to get on with him as a parent.
Not second guessing , nice behaviours or him wanting to spend time with us all.
If I approach the subject with him he gets nasty or defensive. That he doesn't think it confuses the kids and that this is life now , he doesn't want me and that I should just get on.
I never ask for him back when I broach the subject just ask him to stop using me and my house and good nature and to branch off with the kids but it gets his back up.
I did stop inviting him in for a while but he then kept asking me to join them for lunch or other activities.
Short of hiring someone to do the hangovers. What can I do to stop the muddying of waters and have some kid free time.
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Just don't know what to do with myself !!!!
Catchmeifyoucan1 · 01/01/2017 22:47
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