AITAH?
My sons step mum said to me her and my sons dad were planning to go to Australia and that my son wanted to go with them but he would talk to me about it.
He’s 13.
I said no for now but if I was working and couldn’t get time off I’d make exceptions. They are planning on going during the school holidays, which is meant to be when i have him and dont get to see him outside of this as they relocated and he wanted to go with them.
I got told he wouldn’t be happy and that I need to put his needs above my own. And that I was holding him back. I did get upset at this and told my sister, who messaged my ex. And she told him it wouldn’t go well for him in court as it was parent alienation. This has now resulted in mediation initiated by ex. I didn’t think I was being unreasonable. As it’s meant to my time with him and they’re already cutting my time with him short. The time we have together is non recoverable. And it’s important to me to have, even if we’re not doing anything exciting or interesting, just hanging out. I let him go to Singapore during my time and I said I was ok with it as long as it didn’t happen all the time. The Singapore trip was this year and the Australia trip would be next year.
So AITA?