ExH and I have 2 DC aged 12 and 11.
ExH moved to another country with his now wife when we divorced. We divorced nearly a decade ago now. I'm remarried with more DC.
ExH has always insisted we do 50/50 in school holidays. It's caused problems over the years but I'm used to it now.
Every year regarding the summer we have the same row and it occurs around this time of year when I am booing my annual leave for the upcoming year (NHS). ExH doesn't work (huge inheritance some time ago) and therefore spends most of his time on holidays.
Summer holidays are generally last week of July and then back to school in first week of September. Due to the logistics of travelling between countries I have always thought it best to do either the first 3 weeks or the last 3. ExH however always fights it and it's grinding me down.
2024 he's booked flights for the kids and him to his country from 2nd to 25th August. He did it last year too. He says he's on hokiday himself before that so can't do week 1 of the holidays. So yet again I get the kids the first week of the holidays when they're tired and over excited about no school, then I get the last couple of weeks when they return from their dad knackered and moody that school is coming back up.
AIBU to say no, we do weeks 1-3 or 4-6?
It just feels like ExH is cherry picking to suit himself.