Knowing each other. Is this weird?

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Three year relationship. It's over now but I wondered if others would think this weird too.
We both have dc from our marriages. Both involved with each others dc, holiday together, living together on weekends etc. His older dc have had issues that I've helped support them with etc.

Out the blue after 3 years dp says 'oh that would have been during the homeschooling years'. I'm a bit like eh? He says 'yeah we home schooled for a couple of years'. So I knew the three schools his older two attended, I'd asked this early on in our relationship. Just in general chit chat about the kids. His older dc have had real issues that we have tried together to help and I've tried hard to give both dp and the dc support. I was quite shocked dp had never mentioned this. I feel it's quite a big thing. We have talked a lot about how these dc were as youngsters because of current stuff. Just seems a pretty big thing to miss out or would you not think this was worth mentioning

Is it just me?

YearS, so more than one. I’m surprised it never came up in conversation from ex or the dc, especially as you spent so much time together.

Yes it surprised me too. I honestly responded in the moment with 'what??? Why don't I know that?'. It made me really think about our relationship and I suppose the lack of general chit chat from him that makes you really know each other. I found it really quite weird that he hadn't mentioned it. I had also said a few times during lockdown that my dc were asking to be home schooled and how I could never do that, I just don't have the patience. That there was his moment surely

Yes it's probably odd he didn't mention it, but why is it playing in your mind now? Are you trying to work through why it didn't work out, and you think there is an answer somewhere in there?

You felt it is quite a big thing but maybe he didn't.
However, I think it's a bit odd that he didn't mention it when your kids were asking to be homeschooled. He could have said at that point that his were homeschooled for 3 years and how it had or had not worked out.