Woah, woah woah.... who said we don't have him to stay at all? We have him every single weekend and every holiday. Last summer we had him six out of the seven weeks. He's a part of our family and we have him or see him whenever we can. So she does have breaks away from him.
I would dearly love to be able to take him on holidays with us, but the simple fact is, we cannot afford to go on holiday at all. And, if i'm honest, a week in a caravan in Porthcawl is not my idea of a holiday even if we could afford it.
Instead, we go on special days out - to local farms, the beach, the lido, the park etc. We just haven't enough money to go on holiday.
Manshapes ex did suggest at one point that she would give manshape the vouchers and we could go and book somewhere and go without her, and that would have been fine, but now she's changing the goalposts because she wants to bring her grandchildren (not manshapes) on holiday too.
Yes, i'll be honest, i do have problems with her. She has been manipulative towards both manshape and her son, she is vindictive and money grabbing and a deeply unpleasant woman - she once spat at my youngest son - and i try to avoid her at all costs.
The poster who asked what was so bad about the holiday last year - she refused to lift a finger to clean up after herself, wouldn't even lift a cup to the sink, wouldn't cook and expected me to do it all. I asked her at one point as she wasn't going swimming if she could sit next to my youngest in his buggy whilst i took my toddler daughter in the pool for half an hour and she said no. TBH it was no holiday for me at all.