vero, My kids are def detaching from stbx. They are just too disappointed in him and too hurt to be wiling to put up with much more.
And they are insightful.
Tonight, S14 got a text that read "I won't be able to pick you up from school on Monday. Make sure you tell your mum to do it instead."
S14 asked me if his dad thought that saying things in a text made them real. As he pointed out - he hasn't picked them up from school for over a week now. It's been left up to me - with no word from stbx.
I asked him if he was going to reply to his dad's text and S14 said "No, I'm just so over all this. It's weird."