She said 7 years in an earlier post. |
Truth hurts. |
| Don’t you decorate the tree with your DH and child? You can do it in the evening anyway. Call him and ask with your voice what time he will be ready to get the tree or if you and DD can meet him there. Decorating is really an evening activity. Have a glass of wine, hot chocolate for kid, enjoy family time. |
Someone still has to get the homework, grocery shopping, birthday parties, cleaning and all of the other chores done. |
You have no time for him. He has no time for you and it sounds like he has moved on. |
It has nothing to do with truth. |
Yes, and OP said this: "And yes, he is gone every Saturday all day whether it’s seeing friends or family or just driving around." |
That can all be done and you can drive around for an afternoon. Maybe not every weekend but sometimes. You don’t need to do heavy cleaning every weekend. Your kid doesn’t have a birthday every weekend and homework should not be saved to the last minute. Relationships take compromise and you seem to want complete control. If you want complete planning control get divorced. |
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The tree can be done tomorrow. The issue is he checks out every single Saturday. What would happen if you told him you had plans 2 saturdays from now and could get handle the kid stuff would he do it. He may feel like you have all this kid stuff to do and dont need him so started doing his own thing and now its gotten out of control.
Would u both go to counseling? |
| Does he smell like beer when he gets home? I would be very suspicious of this behavior. I suspect he is hanging out in a bar or with another woman or both. Does he have a favorite waitress? |
Ops second marriage is on the verge of breaking up. It’s clear from her posts she has learned nothing and will at least go on to marry a third time with a similar outcome. Kids aren’t real crazy about having a new step parent every 7 years. |
Op. Probably shut him out of the kid stuff. It’s her kid and she doesn’t need him for anything, but sex. |
I think that is a little bit of it. Before we got married I was handing all of this on my own and he was used to having Saturdays to do what he wanted. So I just continued to do my thing on Saturdays and have been leaving Sundays for us to hang out. I don’t think he is doing this to avoid me necessarily. It’s just what he has always done. I just don’t get why asking to change his plans for one weekend is that big of a deal. |
Wow, you got all that from my posts. I think you should try to make money predicting the future. You clearly have a gift. |
He’s gone every Saturday but he’s not just driving around every Saturday. It seems like they are each refusing to participate in activities the other finds important which is a problem. Counseling us only as helpful as the couple wants it to be and they don’t seem to want to work together. |