Sent you friend request which will presumably let me send you a PM

Not really advice but my experience and my opinion is this.

For years I have totally compromised my home arrangements and jobs in order to be like clockwork for the contact time that I have scheduled.

Sometimes the logistics of making that happen were a nightmare… inconvenient and expensive… sometimes nearly impossible.

I don’t regret any…[Read more]

Hi Mate

Sorry for a late reply.

When I read your post the main thing I took from it was that it reads that your wife is being affected by depression.

I didn’t really fully understand depression and what it can do. From my understanding and experience its maybe responsible and definitely one of the biggest factors in almost everything you…[Read more]

Hi J

It doesn’t say if you are married…I have assumed so. If not some of this doesn’t apply..you’d be in a grey area.

Everyone would hope that your relationship would recover, there are much better people than me to post words of encouragement and tips. Counselling, help, negotiation etc these are all massively good things and should be at…[Read more]

Hi Tim,

Is there a ‘direct message’ process on here? I have an almost comparable situation…but about 2yrs down the chain of woe.

I appreciate that comments above don’t contribute much to the general thread….sorry!!

In my experience/opinion, where there is an acrimonious breakup OP would be absolutely right to minimise chance of…[Read more]

Morning

Here are a few thoughts

I think blokes normally talk on forums about football and cars, I don’t think a blokes children site would ever catch fire like mumsnet but I do think its really important that this exists. I do like reading the day to day stuff.

I read up on forums to try and deal with the negative aspects of being a dad that I…[Read more]

Hi John

I agree about the separate forum section.

I like the ‘positive’ approach of this website but people will normally come to a site like this when they want to talk about something and its better if it has a clear place to sit.

I would suggest sections (noting the first two are separate issues in court)

Divorce – Finance
Divorce -…[Read more]

Is there a way of sending a private message on this system?

Hi Everyone

I’m “DDP1268”, sorry for such a rubbish tag but if I am to get stuck into any discussions here I need to be anonymous, and using a false name didn’t feel right!

I’m the dad of a lovely boy. It was good to see this website, I’ll have a good rummage and read some of the backposts.

I have no idea where DDP1268 came from. It sounds…[Read more]