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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just frame it differently. "I want to spend some just dad time with them- you get to lots during the week, so I want to make sure I'm establishing a similar relationship"[/quote]

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+3. To make it easier, book and prepay a pedicure or something for her. (I said pedicure because I love them, send her to do something she loves and finds luxurious, and that she doesn't get to do very often) then she will be busy while you are out with the kids. [/quote]

She just had a ladies night out it's not likely she was going to agree to go to the spa. She's a control freak. Perhaps a well meaning control freak, but no mount of sweet talk and  luxury treats is going to get her to change.

The only thing that will get her to change is as a PP mention possibly losing her marriage over her ways or 2) her kids tell her they don't want her around because she's mean/controlling.[/quote]

OP, how do the kids respond when she's not around? In my case, my DH is happy to take the kids on Sat morning so I can sleep in (and I do the same for him on Sunday mornings), but my kids complain all the time if I don't come on every outing. So I end up getting up due to the guilt.  [/quote]

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