Yea, be an adult, focus on the child, not Mom or Dad.. Look at the child or children.. A child or children deserve to have a real mom and a real dad. Mom and Dad need to work what are the BEST for your child or children. If one of them have a job, have money, has a house, yard, focus on child or children 100%, home all the time, spending time with child or children like raking the yard, hopping around the house, bike riding, a child or children should be growing up and live in this kind of place and activities... Mom and Dad need to get involve to their child or children's activities like reading them a book, take them out to ball game, take them to park, etc. Who has the best interest of your child or children? Your child or children need to understand that your child or children are being love by Mom and Dad. Mom and Dad shouldn't be fighting, they need to be friends, cause you both brought a child or children up to the world, they should be deal with the rights for your child or children. You cannot hate your child/ren's father and you cannot hate your child/ren's mother. It's your child or children's role model to look up when they grow up. I am pretty sure, Sean will look up on his father, cause for many way he has done everything for him, he feed him, he dress him, he teach him, he take him to doctor. And where's the mom? Mom should be taking care of him, watch him, help him grow up, and so on. Mom should be involve in Sean's life as mother. Dad should be involve in Sean's life as father. I cannot imagine myself as the mom leaving my son behind with his father. I carried him 9 months, and I bore him, and I was up with him for night feeding time, and so on. I cannot imagine leaving my kid or kids.
I understand if Mom and Dad have something that doesn't agree each other, and they need to work on something to deal with THIS child or children, not you or you. Look at the CHILD! Look at the CHILDREN!
I hope I am not being rude or anything. I am telling you, DeafScuba and CoolieFroggie, it is something you two need to work on something to deal with the best interest your child Sean. If you two can't, Sean will grow up a miserable life cause his parents are fighting over him and he will think it's all his fault, but you two got to tell him that everything are NOT his fault.
My biological sister and I were the children of divorce, and my biological parents fought over who get the custody of me and my sister, and my mom won the custody, cause my mom was there for me and my sister all the time, and my biological father was working overtime, hardly never come home, and never done anything to support us in child supports, and my mom divorced him. Now my mom remarried to a really nice guy who became my stepfather, and he actually "adopted" not legal, me and my sister, and he was there for me and my sister no matter what. I was on softball team, who watched me play, my mom and stepdad, and my real father was no show. He paid me to college, he brought me a car, he paid for clothes, and everything. That is what child or children should have this kind of parents to look over to their children. I gave birth, my mom and stepdad were there, and my mom called my real father to let him know that I had the baby, and he never bother to send me a flowers, card or call or visit, so I "estranged" from him (no longer to see him or hear from him) since.
You don't want that, DeafScuba/Cooliefroggie.. Better to discuss in person, and work out the plans and Sean will understand. It will work out if you two can try. Don't be afraid.. You are the father and You are the mother.
Good Luck...