Monday, 8 May 2017

Question about shared custody


I've been divorced for about five years now and my ex-wife frequently schedules activities for our six-year old daughter to do on the days that I'm supposed to have our daughter.I complained about this to her tonight and she threatened to take me to court over it. She spins this to make it seem like I'm trying to restrict what activities my daughter does but my daughter isn't the one asking to do these things on my days with her. My ex-wife is scheduling things for our daughter to do on the days that I'm supposed to have her.The parenting agreement says that the parents have autonomy; that one parent can't exert control over the other. I feel like scheduling things for my daughter to do during my time with her is a violation of this. If my daughter says "I want to do [x]", I'll do it within reason, but this is my x-wife dictating these things. Usually she just takes her on my day to do the activity, but sometimes she asks me to take her myself. I don't mind taking her to an assigned activity on my day; what I don't like is how my ex-wife schedules things without regard for the parenting agreement. I feel like she should RARELY need to take our daughter on my day with her, but she's taken her four days in the past two months.My normal schedule is that I have our daughter on Friday/Saturday and Tuesday/Wednesday (but that adds up to less than half of the week because I get her after work on Friday and Tuesday and I have to drop her off early Wednesday morning - so really I only have one full day with her on Saturdays ... which is the day that keeps getting hit by my ex-wife's plans).Am I being selfish? Am I being unreasonable? My ex-wife wants to go to mediation or court, but I find that even more annoying because it just shouldn't be necessary. All I want is for my time with my daughter to be respected as my time with our daughter. via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2ppicnu

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