So I had a call from CSM this morning to say my ex wants a reduction in the amount he pays me because he has to pay petrol to see his son.
After over 5 years of no contact, he started seeing him again. Just once a month mind you, couldn't possibly be more than that because he has to have a life blah blah blah.
He's now moved onto taking him home 150 miles away for the one weekend he sees him. He's refused to buy clothes for him while at his house. He picks DS up from school and I didn't want DS to have to carry a hole heap of stuff in and also it would more than likely not come back. So I bought DS jeans, tracksuit bottoms, shorts, t-shirts and hoodie for when he is up there and posted them to him. No thanks for it by the way.
Apparently this is not good enough and I need to provide at least 2 sets of decent clothes and send them with him. I normally send one set for him to travel home in on the Sunday. I've told him to shove it and that I will provide a set for him to come home but thats all, that if he doesn't like the clothes I bought, paid for and posted to him, he can actually put his hand in his own pocket and buy him some.
I also asked him to drop my DS at a place where I had to do some duties and also so DS could see his friends and sail/play. This is actually better for ex and closer than driving to my house.
Anyway none of this has gone down well because now he wants me to effectively pay his petrol to see his son by taking out the legal bare minimum I get from him. He will also be dropping him off an hour earlier and has refused to ever drop him anywhere but my home. Oh and he also didn't give him any lunch when he dropped him at 15:15. All DS had was breakfast!
I have one wage coming into my home, a mortgage to pay for plus all the other nonsense that goes with living in a home. I also pay for all DS activities, petrol driving him everywhere, holiday clubs during school holidays, his birthday parties etc etc.
They have two decent wages to pay for the household stuff. Its just a never ending stream of bollocks to either make my life that bit harder or annoy me.
Is this a thing? making the RP pay the petrol? I can't work out whether Im being unreasonable to think he's being a right fucking cock about this!