What is everyone doing about Christmas presents from children to the parent who has left the home? My husband dropped us because he was having an affair. Then for my birthday he took the kids shopping to choose me a birthday present but chose ridiculous timberland boots costing nearly £200 “from the children” but they didn’t choose them. He would have spent £50 max in previous years from all 3 of them.
His birthday was the same week and the children chose him a Star Wars t-shirt and a Lego key ring. I told him I felt uncomfortable with the amount of money he had spent and please could he return the boots. He got REALLY nasty about it, and finally agreed only after his mum intervened. That was back in June.
My sister has helped the children choose Christmas presents from them to me to prevent the same nonsense again. The children haven’t seen their father for over 4 weeks because he has been away with the newest “soul mate” in Thailand, so I know there has been no discussion with him about choosing presents for me.
They have not mentioned buying him a present to me at all.
What should I do? To give some context, in the last week he has written me multiple emails about children’s school events which he didn’t read the emails about, calling me a vindictive bitch, an idiot, to name but a couple of insults. So he’s not exactly endearing himself right now!!
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Christmas presents to STBXH from kids
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percy1979 · 18/12/2018 20:31
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