Mother refuses to pick up ex's 8-year-old daughter with another woman while she's picking up her son, the daughter is left waiting at school until 7 pm: 'I didn't sign up for this'

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Sep 29, 2025 1:00 PM EDT

The thing about entitled people is that they'll try to get anything they want out of you, while disregarding any of your needs, wants, or boundaries. In this story, the protagonist is a woman who's divorced. Her ex and her have a son together, and he cheated and married the affair partner, and they also have a daughter the same age. Their divorce ended on a bad note, as anyone could imagine in the aftermath of infidelity. One day, she gets a call from her child's school telling her he's still there waiting for a pickup. She arrives to get him, and is then told that his stepsister is there as well, and that she's been written down as a designated person to pick her up from school as well. 

The woman is flabbergasted and tells them she doesn't want to be involved, and that she's not driving the girl home. She admits, that the girl is just a child, and that it isn't fair. But she has her boundaries. 

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    AITA for not picking up my ex's daughter from school when I picked up our son?

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    Ex cheated on me when I was pregnant with our son (8) and because of this he has a daughter (8) with his affair partner, now
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    wife. We are not on good terms and I do not have a relationship with my ex's daughter. I have never spoken a word to her or
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    spent any significant time in her presence. Ex and I split custody (50-50) of our son.
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    Two weeks ago I got a call from the school during his custody time stating nobody had picked our son up from school and
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    asking if I would. When I got to the school my ex's daughter was also there and the teacher was with her. She told me I was on the
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    approved list for pick up for ex's daughter and would I take both kids. I said no and I told her I did not want to be on the list as I
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    would never pick the other child up from school. She told me she would pass the word along and it would be taken care of and I had
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    to call to follow up on this. My ex never told me he or his wife added me to the authorized pickup list for his daughter.
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    When he realized I had not picked up his daughter with our son he was furious. He asked me how I could leave her behind
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    when I would have our son unplanned anyway. I told him via our parenting app that I picked up our son as I would always do if
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    needed but his daughter is not my child and I will not be their emergency school pickup.
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    According to him my ex's daughter was there until 7 because I refused to pick her up with our son. She's a child and I
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    understand that's not ideal. I don't feel bad per say but I wonder if I would be considered an a hole for being unwilling to do it this once? This is not
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    something I want to be a regular thing and it's the first time it ever happened. Ex's wife was apparently delayed out of town and ex was working. AITA?
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