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Why oh why do I have to keep asking..!

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therockingbird · 28/02/2026 18:00

Just here to rant and see if anyone else can relate - ExH pays the bare minimum, despite being very well off. I can’t be arsed to fight it so just crack on. Additional expenses I make him pay half. Son has been selected to attend a ski trip next year - not cheap, agreed to go halves. Reminded him we need to pay the next block of instalments by 28/02. Reminded him again yesterday there’s was just one day left to pay - resigned myself to the fact I’d foot the bill.. he replied yesterday saying he’d sort it first this morning. Guess what - not done! So I called earlier to remind him again (he likes me asking for money as he’s a complete control freak) his answer.. the days not over yet. I said why bother saying you’d do it first thing if you didn’t intend to! Honestly the man sends me round the fricking bend. I wish I could just say sod it - and block him out of our lives. He won’t go away sadly, he’s hanging onto the tiniest control wherever he can.. does anyone else have this issue? It’s just infuriating. I was having a good day - he’s changed that just by being so difficult. I try my best to ignore him but sometimes trying to co-parent with him is like banging your head against the brick wall.

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Besidemyselfwithworry · 28/02/2026 18:05

What a head of a duck!
I would pay your half direct to the school and email them your banking receipt saying here’s my half, sons dad will pay the other half and copy the useless waste of space into the email making him look like the twat he is to the who will then contact him for the other half.
sorry you’re dealing with this x

Besidemyselfwithworry · 28/02/2026 18:05

To the “school”
not who predictive text gone wrong!

therockingbird · 28/02/2026 18:29

It’s an online app otherwise I’d consider doing that. He has to pay me his half so I can pay it all. We’ve opted to pay it in blocks of 4 months at a time to clear it quicker £81 per month so not a small amount. The icing on the cake is he’ll be travelling 150 down and back again tomorrow to make his presence felt at the rugby game. If it’s not paid by then I’ll be making a point of mentioning it in front of the dads he pretends to be f*cking dad of the year to in his flash car waxing lyrical about his cash rich business. Honestly I can’t see why the hell I married him. Meanwhile the estranged wife who fled the family home (because he wouldn’t go) stayed in several temporary accommodation flats with two boys to get away from him! Now resides in a council house.. (to be fair we are very happy here and I’m so thankful) BUT - How do these men live with themselves.

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