Anyone else have a man child for DC’s parent, even though they’re middle aged and ‘a professional’?

[Eloes]

Just wanted to vent.

Ex is 43, highly paid, professional. He is an utter shit where dc is concerned. A total shit. He is astonishingly immature. It’s on another level. He will be late, cancel, be ‘too busy with work,’ never transparent or fair about money. Just a terrible person really, yet nobody would expect it given his job.

urgh.

Is he still with you or are you coparenting.

My then husband thought of himself as the most fantastic dad. Yet if he took her out on his own he forgot about mealtimes for her. So they would go to a cafe he’s have a proper lunch but she’d be given a blueberry muffin/icecream to last her all day.

Or once he took her across the road to look at the horses. It was practically bedtime and she was in her pyjamas. He ended chatting with a neighbour and going around to his house to drink whiskey. He was gone two fucking hours and I was frantic with worry. He’d left his phone at home.

These weren’t isolated incidents, it was all the time. He nearly drowned her TWICE on the same holiday. He still thinks he was the best dad ever.