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Am I wrong to think it's completely unreasonable to be leaving a child alone at night whilst the ex goes out with his new girlfriend?
They've only been together a few weeks, he has one child living with him and I have one with me. Contact is [censored], court currently ongoing.
Found messages on child's phone (he's 12) literally begging to be picked up from his friends house as he didn't want to sleep out, it was gone 11pm. Then another askin what time he would be home, again late at night.
I've already received an email " I've got a life now an plans so contact will have to revolve round that" basically when it [censored] suits him! I'm so angry! My plans revolve round our kids. Pathetic some people.
I'm not surprised you're angry... Did I read in another post that you're in a court case over contact for your children? It might be worth screen shotting the texts from your son's phone as evidence?
Yeah it was me.
I'm just flabbergasted the way some humans behave.
Took son home earlier to collect some overnight clothes, ex came down the street to the car so I aske him what son had been saying, he went mad, told son to stop being so ungrateful he'd had £60 this weekend to go off with his friends and do things (bought out of the way more like) and this is how he repays him! Told him to pack his bags an eff off! Son was mortified, walked off in tears, lady in the car in front got out to check we were all ok and now I have a devastated child who still wants to be with his dad!! I just don't get it? Who talks to a child like that?!
Who talks to a child like that?!
My ex - well, until my girls realised they didn't have to take it any more.