my partners ex wife wont let us take the kids on holiday!
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29 January 2012 @ 19:26
we wanted a family break within the uk with both my daughter and my partners children. my partner has regular access to the children and stay with us every weekend all weekend from friday nights. we wanted a family holiday, to a holiday park within the uk and the ex wont let us take them! Im angry with this and not sure if she can refuse? its not like we are taking them abroad!not sure if we can afford to drag this through the courts but not sure of any other options. any help on this would be greatly appriciated.
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You do sound angry about this, is it partly about you having the children all weekend, every weekend from Friday night? so she is happy about that because it suits her? My way around this is to just keep in mind how the children might feel if I fall out with my partners ex...not easy. Click on videos on the left you get some great insights into how children feel about splits in the family...including the ones by teenagers who are looking back now on the time their parents split up.....'What's still hard' 'What I have learned' 'What helped when my parents split up' and 'Living in two houses after parents split' were pretty good at making me think about how my kids might view what is happening in the future. I'd be interested in your opinion of them and some of the others.
When my ex asked to take our children away for a week I said no too. I know he thought i was being mean but a week would have been too long for the children (4 and 6) as they'd only ever been away from me for 3 days max. To cut a long story short things got way out of hand and he threatened to take me to court which would have been bad for the children. We ended up having a mediation meeting which was good cos i got a chance to explain about the week being too long without him shouting at me. In the end we agreed on Centreparks for a long w/e last summer and I've agreed to a week this summer as they'll be that bit older.