Q. Each time my son goes to see his father, I get a phone call telling me there is no food in the house. My son tells me he’s starving. “Dad never feeds us!” He’s 14! He needs to eat.
I don’t want my son to be hungry and since I rarely talk to his dad, I just call Grubhub and have something quick like McDonald’s delivered. Then I get angry texts from his dad about how I am interfering! How am I interfering? Our child is hungry. It’s strange because his father loved to cook when we were together. Now he’s such a flake, he never feeds the kids. I don’t know what to do. What’s good ex-etiquette?
A. I think your son is playing games and that’s just the first red flag I’m going to mention. You see, when co-parents don’t talk, their kids can tell them anything and there’s no way to check if th