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[quote=Anonymous]Nanny is spot on!

My ex has 50/50 custody on paper but has slow let it erode. Part of that is because he never plans anything for the kids, never set up rituals, and doesn't have stuff at his place that they kids enjoy playing with. So the kids like spending time at my place. That's all on him - I don't badmouth him to the kids or encourage this

Now that the kids are older, he's checked out from what's going on in their lives. None of this has anything to do with me - he has access to the same school information that I do, yet he doesn't look at things or talk to them. So he doesn't know what classes the kids are taking, what the teachers are like, what they want to do for summer, etc. Which means the kids share less with him, because he doesn't ask them specific questions about classes, school projects, friends, etc.

Now granted, I could put more effort into helping him build his relationships with the kids. But since he's not nice to me, I prefer just going about living my life and leave it to him to deal.[/quote]

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