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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] She talks about everyone and everything being more important than dad as the reason to not have visits.[/quote]

For a teenager in senior year of high school? [b]Sports, social events, and school activities do take precedence over spending time with family, for most teenagers[/b]. At least, that is completely developmentally normal. Parents who don't realize this and refuse to change their lifestyle if they live far from their 17 year olds are setting themselves up to alienate their teen. This was not OP's doing; it was dad's refusal to be flexible and work with his teen. Fair enough - that was Dad's decision, and he has to live with the consequences of not putting his kid's perfectly normal developmental needs first.[/quote]

+1.  In what dual parent household is a 17.5yr old sitting at home with his parents on the weekend?[/quote]

This isn't comparable to a dual-parent household and Dad has 2 weekends/4 days a month.  However, it's over.  The child is 18 and Mom accomplished what she wanted by severing the relationship and now playing victim to why the child doesn't want to see Dad.  Child doesn't value the relationship as Mom taught him that Sports, social events, and school activities take precedence over seeing Dad.   Soon she'll come on here complaining Dad will not pay for college, give her child support or extra's as why should he when they have no relationship anymore.  [/quote]

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