She missed our son's Academic Achievement Award ceremony today
My ex and I have 50/50 of our 8 year old son. We can be in the same room without issues and mostly get along. The only time we can't is when she lets down our son. Partly because I get really annoyed and partly because she then blames me for her missing stuff and not reminding her. It's gotten to the point where whenever there is a school event for our son she says she will show up and then "forgets" and blames me for not reminding her. (For the record, she and I get the same emails from the school and the only difference is that I read them.)
Which brings us to today. My son was receiving an award for Academic Excellence today at his school. I told my work I would be late and they were fine with it. She is not currently working. Nonetheless, I was the only one who showed up. I called to see if she wanted me to save her a seat and she said she forgot and blamed me for not calling her earlier. As a side note, I used to remind her and send her calendar invites but she asked me to stop because she said she wanted to take care of it herself.
The look of mixed happiness that I was there and sadness that his mom forgot again was heartbreaking. I asked if he was ok and he said he was because he doesn't expect her to show up to things.
I get that people have schedules and sometimes can't make things, but I'm just so sad that she doesn't show up when the only reason is that she just doesn't care enough to bother.