Do You Need to Buy Your Ex a Father’s Day Gift?

4 reasons you should and 4 you shouldn’t.

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June means the end of the school year (in a typical year, anyway), the beginning of a long hot summer, pool days, and Father’s Day. As your own father’s child, you may celebrate your own father with no problem.

But when it comes to celebrating your ex, you hesitate — and understandably so. He’s not your father and you’re no longer together. You have no real obligations to him, right?

But you have children together. And they might want to celebrate their father. Or maybe they wouldn’t even know it was Father’s Day at all if you didn’t say anything.

So it still begs the question: Do you need to buy a Father’s Day gift for your ex? Here are four reasons you should and four reasons you shouldn’t. You decide what fits your situation.

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Why you should:

It helps the kids feel like some things haven’t changed

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