50/50 arrangement, previous DA years ago with this delightful ex.
Tonight, our ds (16) came to me, we watched The Truman Show and ate a curry for a couple of hours together. He then went back to his dads because he's starting a new job tomorrow and his dad had arranged to drop him off in the am. While ds was at mine, his dad started drinking.
After ds had gone back to his dad's, he came home an hour or so later in floods of tears - they'd had an argument and ex has shoved him hard and kicked him as he left his flat. No marks but ds was massively shook up and didn't stop crying for over an hour.
I comforrted and talked it through with ds, and explained I'd be reporting it to 101. Ds wasn't keen because he doesn't want any repercussions for his dad. But he let me do it and said he trusted me to do the right thing. Ex is always guilt tripping ds and making him feel awful, typical controlling arse. But this feels like things could escalate as it was physical. I just want to protect ds, but he is worried how his dad will react if the police talk to him. He still wants to see him when things have calmed.
Would you have reported it?