Co-Parenting and Covid

     I have written before about the difficulties of being married to a woman who shares custody with an ex-husband who scores off the charts on narcissism.  Several things have cropped up over the years but the pure stupidity and lack of logical reasoning rose up during the past week.  On Sunday, Jennie tested positive for Covid-19 and reached out to Mr. Co-Parent about picking up his girls one night early.  He said he would pick them up if they tested negative for the virus.  I went out and bought more rapid tests, tested each one and they were negative.

    I went off to the store to grab some soups and supplies for Jennie.  When I returned home, I learned that Mr. Co-Parent took two of the three girls to his house leaving the youngest with us.  The original narrative was because she was not vaccinated, she needed to quarantine in our house.  Let that sink in for a moment.  You leave the most vulnerable (theoretically) in the home of the confirmed Covid case. For the first 4 days I was able to take care of the kids in our house while I was home from work.  Fortunately, the kids were able to take care of their breakfast and lunch needs, and I could take care of dinner.

    As Jennie kept pressing for an answer on why he chose to leave the most vulnerable with us, a narrative was finally crafted that he did not have enough room in his home to keep everyone quarantined.  I certainly can understand that difficulty as we have two kids sleeping the in same room.  However, I was again surprised when we learned that the two girls from our house were staying in the same room, leaving two bedrooms available for one step daughter.  So, you had an extra room where you could have placed the youngest daughter, but you chose to leave her in the house with the confirmed positive.  Hmm, okay.

    As bad luck would have it, I started feeling symptomatic on Friday and tested positive on Saturday.  Now we had the situation of having both parents testing positive having to take care of two kids, one of whom was unvaccinated.  I suppose we should have seen this coming as I did not move out of our bedroom until Sunday and was likely exposed before moving out.  And Mr. Co-Parent had the audacity to express concern that we were not properly isolating ourselves and putting the kids (in our house) at risk.  He had the perfect opportunity to minimize the exposure of his child to the virus by taking her to his house, but he chose a different path and now wants to question our ability to properly isolate from the kids.  You really can't make this stuff up.  The lack of forward thinking or logical reasoning that he displayed was utterly amazing.  

    My co-workers make fun of me all the time when I tell them the stupid things that take place in the co-parenting realm and have jokingly taken to calling him my ex-husband.  All I can do is quote Forrest Gump: Stupid is as stupid does.