AIO for being annoyed my kid's mom told him I 'couldn't afford' the trip?
me (45M), divorced, two teenagers. my son (16M) wanted to do a school trip, about 1,900 dollars. we split extras 50/50 in the order. i said i'd need to do it over three months and asked if we could talk about timing. that's what i said, in a text, which i still have. what my son heard was that dad couldn't afford it. he told me that in the car, not angrily, just as a fact — "mom said you couldn't afford it so she's covering it." she did cover it. she paid the whole thing. i'm not upset about the money. i'd have got there. i'm upset that my 16 year old now has a fact in his head about me that came from her and not from me, and it's the kind of fact a kid remembers. i brought it up and she said she was managing his disappointment on a deadline and didn't have time to workshop the wording. which is a real thing. deadlines are real. i still can't get past it.
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