Come and have a laugh at my ex husband of you need cheering up!

[Mydogisamassivetwat]

Ds was planning to visit his dad at some point over Christmas. Looking at trains last night, they were absolutely extortionate and for two days, inc 10 hour travel time, it wasn’t worth the price.

Ex h has gone mental. Sent me a text last night saying that as I chose to move so far away from him, it’s my responsibility, and I should bring ds to him for contact. I have to drive him or pay the train fare. He’s going to “take advice” on next steps.

Ds is 22 years old. Yes, twenty-two. Not two. A grown man.

Has his own job, didn’t know when his leave would be until last night so couldn’t plan in advance, and to be honest, he’s a grown arse adult who is working Christmas Day anyway and what he does with his free time and his money is no longer any of my business.

I am wondering on what these next steps will be? Solicitor, perhaps? Or maybe he will go for full custody? I mean, ds lives with his girlfriend now, so I presume it’s her he would take to court, not me? Or perhaps their landlord? Who knows!

Oh and I know I’ll get asked why he still has my contact details. It’s because, every so often, he will do something batshit like this and honestly, I find it hilarious. When ds was 18, he said he was going to court for full custody and was contacting solicitors as ds didn’t want to go to uni, so this is nothing new, the man is just a fucking idiot. I tell him to let me know how it goes and then ignore him.

I think you are the only one....

Oh my God......I was so miserable with a chest infection.....putting Christmas lights up at 4am and this is the funniest thing I've read in ages🤣🤣
Thank you so much...... still laughing as I'm finishing writing 🤣......brilliant!

What an absolute bellend your ex is.does he think your his little puppy at his beck and call.he’s moved on and so should you.have u any kids?just ignore the utter twat and say talk to me through your solicitor.you’ve got the dolly bird and just cos your god knows how many miles away has fook all to do with it.please let me attend the hearing so I can shout wanker to him.have a good Christmas and ignore the knob completely.this is from a kind of man’s point of view^^

Could your ex not travel a few hours to take his DS out for the day - they could go to McDonald’s and visit Santa’s grotto 😉

I was going to say the exact same thing!

Lordy I needed the laugh - thanks everyone. But especially @Mydogisamassivetwat

I've remembered another one from the early days post split.

Me "what schedule suits you to have da for overnights?"

Him "I can't have ds overnight - when I would I get to go out?"

Me "if you do 1 overnight any of the other 29 nights in a month" 🙄

Just read the thread. Fabulous! I know you don’t want to include your son in his father’s batshitery but it’d be great if he could text his dad and say
“ What has mum got to do with me seeing you since I’m an adult living independently, she honestly is still laughing at your message that she can hardly breathe you silly twat, I cannot afford the train fare this time but the trains go both ways.”

Oh dear.
I think you need to take a look at your boundaries, or you'll end up with a wrong'un.

Could you send your enormous son to see him dressed in shorts and a school cap, have him skip along beside him going 'hello clouds, hello sky', demand ice cream and candy floss at every moment and threaten to scream and scream until he's sick?

This is almost as funny as the original post! 😂😂😂

Bloody ex wife, allowing his daughter to grow up., while he was getting ready to be a parent. How dare she?

Three crylauging emojis but no argument against what I said, which is obviously morally correct and you know it.

erm I did just this because when our daughter was 3-this was because I met my now husband of 7 years (together 13 years) and live 140 miles away. Part of reason I moved and not my now DH is because ex husband was horrendous and so controlling. He cheated and this was reason for split but as soon as he discovered I was dating other men he would turn up at the jointly owned house whenever he wanted doing things like going through all my personal belongings and trashing house whilst I was at work and then ring me telling me he was doing so. He would show up or threaten to show up all the time so I was living on knife edge the whole time, had police several times who couldn’t do anything as jointly owned property even when he would poor water on my laptop etc, rip wallpaper off walls, leave pizza floating in sink .. he even stole all my clothes at one point. He would also only ever see our daughter when it suited him as had to control thar as well. I am still having an awful time with him 14 years later. He is a complete narcissist. I don’t think that a mum has to stay in close vicinity of her ex as that is completely unfair, so dad can do what they want and move where they want but mum can’t

Yep....there's no such thing as custody on a grown adult such as your son, has he gone completely mad?! Your son chooses and pays to travel to see his dad when and if he chooses...as may his dad upon arrangement with said son. It's literally nothing to do with you anymore. Not even to pay anything towards his travel. Let him go ahead and pay for this advice, Merry Christmas!!

Not quite to this extent but I see this all the time at work, always with men never women. 'I was absent for x amount of months/years as I needed to work on myself in order to be the best possible parent'. All the while you fully neglected the child, where was Mums 'time to work on themselves'?!

That's a really horrible situation and I'm glad you were able to get away. I would have though that it was obvious that I didn't mean things like this, but I've seen it used as part of the "using the kids to get back at the ex" toolbox.

Ummmm @Mydogisamassivetwat I want to know what poor DDog has done to be addressed in the same terms of your ex. One I can understand but DDog is, no doubt, the goodest boy in all of Christendom, no?

She’s the arseholiset girl in all of arseholedom.

She pulled me over lunging after a squirrel and fractured my wrist.

She’s lucky she’s cute through, and doggy Santa will still visit.

Shouldn't you be busy at this time of year? I'm sure there are some shepherds you need to inform about a virgin giving birth.

Oh, give over. Life’s short and I’ll squeeze all the funny moments out of it I can. No one in my family is sobbing over it, especially not me, as I didn’t break up the family by not being able to keep my knob in my trousers, that was my ex. If he’s sad, he’s reaping what he sowed all those years ago.

My ex wasn't sad at Christmas when we were married and he was getting pissed in the pub on Christmas eve whilst I was arranging everything for us all to have a nice day together. He would then eat his dinner and go back to the pub. He's only sad now because I'm no longer his scivy or under his control.

Yep, ok. I agree that’s a twat move 🤣 my fox poo dead badger afficianado looks like an angel by comparison!

How I wish MN had added an eye roll 🙄 option to the new reactions option 😵‍💫