I’m getting divorced from an emotional abuser. For the last 6 months or so we have been sharing parenting. He has been somewhat unreliable, but its been manageable.
However I’m having a real issue with getting any arrangements sorted for the summer holidays. He won’t speak to me in person so I have emailed a couple of times of the last month asking when he can have time off/when he needs to work and he has ignored the emails. I asked him in person if he would be replying and he ignored me.
I work as well so this is a real problem. As he hasn’t responded I came up with a timetable for sharing parenting and emailed it to him. That was a week ago and I’ve had no response.
I’m so worried about what’s going to happen because I could see him just not having the dc when I’ve scheduled him to so coming up with a timetable hasn’t really helped.
Any advice? I know at some point we’ll have a parenting plan but I don’t know how to manage in the meantime. Do I just need to see if I can take unpaid leave (plus the annual leave I’ve booked)? Potentially for no reason when he’ll demand to have the dc for some of the time? Please help!