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Matthew

Matthew

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My ex-wife is leaving up to my 2 kids weather they visit is summer

MY ex and my wife do not get along. The other day they got into an argument and really blasted each other. Now, my daugther and son say they do not want to come this summer because they do not like my wife. My kids are 16 and 14 years of age. I don't know now they knew this happened, but my boy called me two minutes later crying (on his birthday). I have tickets for them to fly nest week, but my daughter before this happened wanted me to change her flight, then later her mom called wanting me to change it again, this cost a hundred dollars everytime I have to do this. I try to be flexible but they live 900 miles away, I can't go down and make them come here, my ex sure is going to. What can I do?

 
 
 
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Submitted 233 days ago...

tmboring

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There really isn't a lot you can do, because the children are really at an age that they can make up their own minds about this stuff. I know is sounds like your ex is playing games, and she may be doing so, but if you spend all your time and money going to court about this issue, they are going to end up telling you that the child can make the choice and you will be right back in this same spot. I like what I would do is; first talk to you current wife and talk to her about the issue (her and your ex fighting) explain to her that you would like to remove her from the battle (not because you don't want her invovled, but because this is your "battle" and you should be the one talking to your ex about your children, not your wife talking to her! You need to talk to your ex also, and explain to both of them, that you not your wife will be dealing with the children issues and they shouldn't need to talk to each other at all unless of emergency. You will also need to talk to your children, find out what they really want, maybe they would like to come, but not for the whole summer (maybe they really don't like your new wife, so they don't want to be there that long!). Try to work with everyone, it's really easy to see your current wives side of everything, but you need to step back and long at everyone else too! Don't cause a big scene over everything, if you find out for real that your children don't like your wife, you will have to accept it and learn how to deal with seeing them and making everyone happy. Maybe after spending short periods of time with her rather than a whole summer at a time, she will grow on them, they are getting older and their eyes are opening a little more each day (that is good and bad at the same time, as they can see good in someone and they can also tell more if they don't like someone) You just have to work with it. Good luck to you!

 
 

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