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[quote=Anonymous]As the kids get older it will become a lot easier to do 1:1 stuff (or kid/mom) stuff only. I’d mostly just wait this out and do what you can to plan as many things not with the dad as possible. Can you start meeting up with mom or mom + kid in stroller for a walk before/after work? Find some other standing weekend morning activity the dads aren’t interested in? (Eg you and mom get a coffee while kids go to gymnastics, or you, mom, kids have a library/coffee date every two weeks). By late elementary we were naturally spending more time with personal friends than family friends - especially in situations like this where we mostly got along with one person.

We have a friend like this and we tolerate him a fair amount but also avoid him some. It helps that I think he comes from a good place but that he just has poor social skills (comes off as arrogant, needling, unable to read the room; we’ve long suspected he was on the autism spectrum and wife has confirmed). It’s easier to tolerate his jerkiness as a disability than a character flaw. DH and I are pretty much able to internally role our eyes and move on [/quote]

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