Monday, September 17, 2007

Huh? Custody Agreement? What's That?

My stepson's birth mother (BM...what a perfect acronym) still doesn't get it. My husband is residential parent and BM sees him one weekday a week for 5 hours after school and then every other weekend. It's only been 5 years since the last custody agreement has been in place, so I can understand that it must be difficult to figure out what weekend she is supposed to have him.

Tonight, she feels the need to tell my husband that she has to have SS (stepson) on our weekend because she already made plans.

My husband tells her that we already have plans (yes, we do) and she has the gall to say, "What are you doing? When are you going to get home? I can pick up SS from your house."

My husband explains that we are not obligated to tell her our schedule when it is our weekend. He explained again that we have plans and we aren't going to move our plans around on our weekend so that she can pick him up.

As usual, BM starts to get rambunctious and continues to ask when we are coming home. The conversation ends with BM saying, "Well, just call me and let me know." Um, yeah. My hubbie will be sure to do that since he didn't already tell you 54 times what the decision would be.

Does anyone else deal with a birth mother or birth father who magically forgets the custody agreement when it suits them?

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