GF birthday?! (Basically a rant)

[WonderGirl11]

So co-parenting seems to be going well generally, I was feeling a bit smug. Oops. Now I’m not so much. Exh tells me at short notice he is expecting to ditch his parenting responsibilities for a whole week (!!) because it’s his gf birthday. She’s 40 something. Really? He is being a twat I think. Surely they can just go out for dinner when he doesn’t have his DD. Which is almost all the time. Or AIBU?

In my opinion YADNBU. My DDs Dad is an absolute bugger for this and to start with I used to go absolutely mad about it. I think it’s slack and selfish, and to be honest to start with I used to get quite upset that it felt like she wasn’t the centre of his world. I’ve come to accept it now, I enjoy the extra time with DD, and I do keep a note of times it happens so I’ve got them ‘banked’ if I need him to change his arrangements for anything.

I do agree though OP, it’s shit.

Haha. Thanks Gilead. It’s really really really irritating. Exactly that, why is your GF so much more important than your DD? I do also enjoy the extra time with DD though!

What is he planning to do that takes all week? 🤔

Hmmm. No idea really Ginger. When we were together he couldn’t get it together to buy a card!

He is too skint to pay any child support so it can’t be anything that costs money. Whatever it is they are doing I guess she’s paying.

Still feeling rant-y. Past resentments surfacing!