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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This was me!  My mom actually still talks about it (that I would come home hungry from my dad’s - either the weekend with him or every Weds. dinner), which makes me feel guilty to this day.  My father and I were not and are not close, though I spent that mandated time with him.  Because my dad didn’t seem to particularly like me, I was very nervous around him and simply was not interested in eating in his presence.  My dad wasn’t awful with me or anything, he just made me uncomfortable.  
Please don’t make your DC feel badly because he doesn’t want to eat with his father.  Your DC is dealing with so much already (because you and his father couldn’t work out your adult sh-t), please don’t begrudge him eating meals when he is comfortable enough to eat them.  Seriously, I understand that divorce sucks for everyone but it sucks more for your kid.[/quote]

Maybe he was uncomfortable as he was basically a babysitter every few weeks vs a dad and did not get the opportunity to have that relationship.  He knew your mom grilled you when you got home and any minor wrong doing or thing she could put a negative spin on she’d get you to say to use it against him.  [/quote]

Pp you’re responding to: interesting point but no.  My mom didn’t ‘grill’ me and never spoke poorly about him.  Not to say that can’t be the case with OP’s DS, but it wasn’t with me.[/quote]

From your posts clearly more was going on.  [/quote]

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