The elementary counselor knows about it but the middle school doesn't open till Friday so I'm not sure I can do much till then.
My kids are really accustomed to just taking their dad for who he is. They don't seem to expect a whole lot from him. When S6 was a toddler I told him I needed help, I couldn't be full time on 24/7 anymore, so he started taking them to lunch on Saturdays every week. After a couple of months they got pretty tired of being interrupted like that and didn't enjoy it anymore, but they didn't ask him to do anything different. They never asked him to take them to the park or teach them to ride two-wheeled bikes or anything. They just accepted that that was as much as he was going to do.
I'm starting to see how much other spouses help one another and I'm feeling really cheated. My brothers take their kids away a time or two a year so my SILs can get a break at home. I know dads who take their kids camping, or fishing, or to baseball and football games. My H wants the kids to sit in his lap and watch college football while he drinks beer, but they get squirmy and go off to play and he never tries to help them understand what he likes about it.
What on earth have I stuck up for him so long for?
Me42, H40 D12, S8, S7 A revealed: 7/13 Sep 4/14; Agreed to D 1/15
