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Topsyair · 03/06/2021 19:31

Exes shifts are intermittent so often I'm left doing everything inc most weekends with our 3 year old. Its come to crisis point and hes offered the following..

He has every Tuesday off for childcare so I'm not paying for nursery as he has our DS. However hes offered to scrap having every Tuesday off as this will means hes more flexible and can work less weekends meaning I get one full weekend a month rather than sometimes having no weekends to myself. however if he scraps the Tuesday I will have to pay for extra nursery. He gets 30 free hours so I'm unsure how much extra itll be yet so the question is...

  1. Keep it how it is and accept hardly any weekend time for free childcare on a tuesday by ex
  2. Accept more flexibly from ex to have more weekend time and stump up the money for extra nursery day
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Tylila · 03/06/2021 19:40

I’d take the weekend on the condition that he still sees him at least one other point throughout the month for contact as a month is a long time between contacts.

I’ve only this last year had every other weekend without my kids after seven years of having to work around my exes shifts. It’s bliss.

Topsyair · 03/06/2021 19:54

Yeah I was thinking the same

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