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[quote=Anonymous]He thinks the mom living 10 miles away is a complication   [i]Where did I say this? But in terms of school commuting, it is a little bit. [/i]
He does not want 100% custody so he can date.   [i]No, I don't want 100% custody because my STBX and I agreed that the kids should spend 50% of the time with each parent. This was a mutual agreement, not something a court ordered. The challenge is my daughter won't agree to it.[/i]
He wants to leave a 17 yo girl home alone when he travels. [i]No, I was just asking what to do if she refuses to be with her mother. Work travel isn't by choice -- it's a logistical issue. So sounds like I will arrange for her to stay with friends.[/i]
He wants to have sleep overs with girlfiends when his daughter is there. [i]I don't understand these people who insist I cannot have a life.[/i]
He wants to cut child support. [i]Yes, but only because my oldest daughter is going to live with me 100% of the time. It isn't some random desire to cheat my kids out of any money.[/i]
He doesn't make his daughter go to her mom's even though there is 50/50 custody. [i]Do you have teenagers? How do you "make" a teenager do something like this she doesn't want to do. Why would it be good for my daughter to MAKE her spend time with her mother, who she detests? I have her in intensive therapy now in the hopes that she can make progress to repairing her relationship with her mother, but I cannot force that to happen. I have strongly ENCOURAGED her to do this and the impact has been to have DD become furious with me and announce I'm not being supportive of her. But I completely resent your assertion that I'm somehow failing to "make" her to this.  Not to mention the inherent contradiction in your litany of bizarre takeaways from my post -- so I simultaneously don't want 100% custody so I can date but I'm also at fault for not MAKING my daughter spend half her time with her mother? Come on, pick a complaint already.[/i][/quote]

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