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Co-parenting - ex is driving me mad

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Dorsetmumoftwo2 · 08/09/2019 14:42

Hoping that someone else can shed a light on a somewhat irritating situation! DD with ex is 11, her Dad and I have been separated since she was 6 months old. Apart from him annoying the hell out of me occasionally we’ve managed to coparent amicably for the most part. In the last few years or so he’s been making a lot of money in work and CM payments have increased, he has her every other weekend from Fri-Mon. He said that as he earns considerably more now and will be paying me more, he won’t be contributing to anything above and beyond the minimum he’s expected to pay and won’t be buying clothes for his house either whilst she’s there. He pays £500 pm. Recently he’s been sending me aggressive messages about the ‘state’ of the clothes I send her with. Apparently they’re grubby and I should be doing a much better job of dressing our DD. I’ve ignored him for the most part because she’s a child and her clothes are perfectly fine, maybe her uniform has a small pen mark or very slightly discoloured sleeves. He wants me to replace her uniform and clothes when they get stained. I think this is unreasonable and wasteful to say the least, I will be replacing them EVERY WEEK. I want her to grow up comfortable with who she is and happy to get a bit messy if she’s having fun and not worry about what others think of her. Her uniform is soaked, stains treated every week. Has anyone else had the same experience? At a loss, I’m sick of his aggressive text messages telling me that I’m not doing a good enough job Sad

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Smumoftwo2 · 10/09/2019 18:23

Thank you for all your messages and advice. I’ve chosen to ignore him and not rise to it. He can wash her clothes from now on and shove the pencil marks up his ass

Windydaysuponus · 10/09/2019 18:27

Next time he picks her up make sure she is wearing a black bag with sleeves cut out. Tell him it's to preserve her clothing....

Nanalisa60 · 10/09/2019 18:35

Well why does he not have cloths at his place!! Tell him to take her to primark so they can have a fun time together buying stuff for his house!!

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Sidu · 10/09/2019 20:54

I really recognise those frustrations from co-parenting my girl with my ex. Today I discovered my 11yo daughter in a lie. We sat down and talked about it and why it couldn’t happen. She burst into tears and disclosed that her father has asked her to lie to me. The ‘first’ mobile phone I bought her a month ago to start secondary school was, in fact her second phone. He bought her one in March, allows her to use age inappropriate apps on it and told her to lie to me. So, so sad about it. Can’t punish her, want to kill him!

Smumoftwo2 · 10/09/2019 22:06

@Sidu OMG I’d be raging! Some people just have zero common sense don’t they. Really feel for you and your poor DD to be put in such an awful position. He should be ashamed of himself!

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