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[quote=Anonymous]I met a guy recently who has two kids (ages 7 and 10). He has them every Tuesday from after school until bedtime (takes them home for the night) and every Friday from after school until Saturday bedtime. They sometimes stay over Saturday night depending on what he and his ex have planned for the weekend.

He also occasionally has them another night during the week if his ex has a commitment.

Has anyone dates someone with this type of custody schedule. I feel like it will be hard as he will never have a kid free weekend, and his Saturday nights are sometimes not available either. It isnuy planned ahead earlier in the week if they are staying over but a few days isn't much time to change plans. It feels like we can't really schedule much for Saturday night as he always takes the kids / keeps the kids if he ex has other plans. The occasional extra evening also means it is hard to plan.

If you are a single parent with shared custody, how often do you say no to taking the kids extra or keeping them longer if you already had plans? It feels like we can never make plans.

I am not sure that this kind of flexible arrangement or the every weekend thing works with dating. His position is that his kids come first and it is saying that has to be flexible to adjust as need be.

Obviously these are all his calls to make and I am not going to tell him otherwise, I am just struggling to see how I can make it work (and I would like to).[/quote]

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