Well, today is dinner-with-dad Thursday. I got a call from XH at lunchtime asking if he can take the kids out for dinner.
He then says he wants to take them on his own.
OK, I say, happy as a clam.
When I tell D17, she says she will be busy this evening getting a tan and packing her bags to go to away with her friends. She rings him and tells him. He is annoyed.
When I tell S15, he says he won't go out with H on his own. I ask him to ring and tell XH before he shows up on our doorstep, but S15 says he doesn't care enough to ring him.
XH is very put out when he arrives and S15 won't go. He insists that I MAKE S15 go with him. I say he can sort it out with S15 himself - as he is sitting right in front of him.
XH tells S15 that he's too young to make his own decisions.
He keeps trying to make me make S15 go with him.
In the end he spends an hour giving S15 a 'talking to'.
I hear S15 telling him that he doesn't like him, doesn't care about him anymore and has been let down by him too often.
Then, all of a sudden, XH comes into the room where i am and asks me if i want to go out to dinner.
I feel like I have been put into a no-win situation. I end up saying that I don't want to push myself where I'm not wanted.
He stands there for a bit looking undecided about what to do/say and then turns on his heel without a word to any of us and walks out. Sits in his car in the driveway for about 5 mins and then drives off.
