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AITA for refusing to do school drop off/pickup for my ex's stepdaughter or let her come to my house with our boys after school?
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But kids are perceptive. His sons told him plainly: they want time with their dad, not their stepsister. That is enough. Denying the request is not petty or cruel. It is simply calling out entitlement for what it is: someone else’s problem trying to invade your living room
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The problem, of course, is history. This ex already tried to strip custody, already weaponized her shiny new husband’s money, and already played the superiority card. Now the lavish two‑parent fantasy has collapsed, and suddenly the struggling single dad they mocked looks like the discount solution holding the whole household together.
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‘Then she started asking for more money’: Divorced dad refuses to do school runs and after‑school care for his ex’s stepdaughter, after she brags about her rich new husband, arguing her new family’s childcare mess isn’t his problem
Full disclosure, I am not divorced, I am not even married, and if one of my exes reached out asking for help, I would probably try to help. But demanding something from me? Wow. I would thank them for the opportunity to discover what they can do with their demands and where I think their entitlement would fit best. That is why this story feels less like co‑parenting and more like community theater performed by people who ran out of shame several acts ago.
Here we have a father who is fully pulling his weight for his kids, only to be asked to step in as unpaid help for his ex's stepdaughter. A child he has no connection to beyond bad luck in the cast list of someone else's marriage. The reason? Money is tight, childcare is expensive, and apparently boundaries now count as cruelty.
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