I have just taken DS6 out for a lovely family day out, which is just the two of us. I have got so tired of him asking when he will see daddy to play video games with him this half term.
Dad does every other weekend and a weekday evening, with more in the holidays. He never takes him out anywhere which is up to him, that's fine. But I do all the boring and expensive bits of parenting. I do homework, reading, dentists, haircuts, dealing with endless messages from school, buying uniform and clothes, washing hair, organising birthdays, playdates. Eight school runs, organising childcare for holidays. I try and take DS out to see interesting things and different places. I've always looked after him when he's poorly, I did all the nights when he was a baby as ex "didn't hear him". And now I'm getting all the "daddy doesn't make me" and "daddy let's me" and I'm so bloody angry I could scream.
I know the answer is to wait it out, one day DS will grow up and look back with adult eyes. But, fuck me, I'm sick of it right now.
Just a rant. Thanks for reading.