Anyone 50/50 parenting split?- what do you do?

[Mothersmith89]

Anyone 50/50’with the kids with ex?

my husband wants this, which is laughable really as he only ever gave us 5% but I don’t want to take my son away from his dad.

just wondering how you do it? I don’t want week on week off as that will be too hard to be away from my LO (age 7)

also, what on earth do you do in your time off? I think I’ll cry all the time?!

background: broken up 6 months, living together still as sorting second mortgage. Very very amicable and will continue I think

I have DC 4 nights a week and they go to my exH 3 nights. They live about a 5 min drive away so he has them 2 non consecutive nights in the week then we share each weekend. We used to do EOW but my DC decided they preferred one day & overnight each with us. They have a bedroom at each house and enough clothes for across both houses so they can go between each with no problems (except kits for activities do end up at the wrong houses). My ex did everything he could to come home late & not spend time with the kids until he left. Now he spends more time with them & is a good Dad although I still take on the mental load.
I work, see my friends & see my boyfriend when the DC are at their Dad’s. I did used to hate coming home to an empty house but I got used to it quite quickly. I soon started to enjoy not living on egg shells (he was hard to live with by the end when he’d already mentally checked out).