...to get my ex-wife to consider changes to our informal custody arrangement. My son has been increasingly unhappy spending time at his mother's house. They fight a lot and frankly, she's not the world's most constructive communicator. Last week, he called me and begged me to pick him up a day early. I contacted her and told her and she said to come pick him up.
I proposed a change to our arrangement where he would spend a day less time there every week, but that I would take charge of his homeschooling so as to remove some of the stress between them and make their time together more about spending time and less about doing work. She and her husband refused.
I told her I was willing to go to court over this. She seemed unfazed at the time, but later I got a facebook message saying that they would concede to my "demands" and that I was "clearly the adult in charge" but that I have "seriously damaged" our co-parenting relationship.
I have never backed down from being the asshole when the well-being of my son is at stake. If I have to be the asshole to ensure that he has a happy and healthy life, then so be it.
