My husband and I separated in May officially. I was planning to take kids (dd 8 and ds 11) to Disney (with ex) during halloween, for 2 nights. My ds, 11, wasn’t keen to go back so opted for a break in London to play squid game ,with his dad and a friend. Before I booked, I asked him again if he’d like to go, and now he wants to go to Disney. I messaged dates to his dad for when it was cheapest, but he now says too short notice, he wouldn’t have enough holidays left as he has booked Blackpool for his 40th and used for that. Instead offered Alton towers to us 🙈 not quite the same imo. This irritates me because he booked to take them to haven and 2 weeks before, said he was cancelling it if he had to take them on his own, so I ended up going and taking time off work, just so kids didn’t get let down and ease the pressure off him.
Anyway, so, had to break the news to our son, and he now doesn’t want to go because dad can’t come. If it were me, I’d knock Blackpool on the head and take my kids to Disney, but we can’t all be the same.
what would you do? My daughter is now upset that we probably won’t go, and then got upset last night that her dad won’t go, even though he wasn’t coming to start with. It’s very recent for them and still adjusting and guess we have all been ok up until this point really. Is it too soon for them, to take them away without their dad? How soon after was it that you did a holiday without dad and did your kids get upset not having dad come along?