I expect I may get a few varying answers on this one, but would like an honest opinion.....
I have a 5 year old daughter from a previous relationship, I am still in contact with my ex purely for my daughters benefit. I can honestly say if it wasn't for my daughter there woud be no need for this thread. My ex has always been a bit useless, especially when it came to keeping a job down and paying maintenace for his daughter. He racked up huge amounts of debt etc. We do get on better sometimes than other times, we usually argue when he's working and its still a struggle to get him to pay maintenance. We don't have this argument when he's out of work because there's just no point!!
Anyway the reason for this thread is obviously with the above information you can imagine my H2B doesn't like him at all, and gets frustrated when I try and keep the peace etc for my daughters sake i.e. my daughter goes to her fathers every 2nd weekend and sometimes I find that I have to provide food etc cause he can't afford to buy food that weekend etc
I had wanted to invite some of my ex's family to the evening do, as I'm still in contact with his Sister and SIL who have 4 kids between them and my daughter adores her cousins. Ideally I would invite only them, but feel I would look bad at inviting them and not my ex himself and his brothers (who again just annoy me, as they are all too similar to my ex treating their wifes awfully). My H2B says he catogorically (sp) does not want my ex there and not be very comfortable with his family either. I totally understand his point of view, but don't want to upset my daughter by not inviting them, and don't want to seem unfriendly by not inviting the family who I'm in regular contact with but would look even worse if I ivited them and leaving my daughters father out?
It's a bit of a tongue twister I know, lol
