I currently have an arrangement with my ex-wife where our 9 year old gets dropped off at my house after school, and her mom comes to pick her up. I WFH, and this has been our arrangement since the divorce started 3 years ago. It's about 2 hours in the afternoon, and it's meaningful time to me. We have a week-on, week-off coparenting schedule, but I get this as additional time during her weeks-on.

Out of the blue my ex-wife decided that she will move to a new apartment building and wants to change this after school routine. She says stopping by my house is too inconvenient for her now and will put our child in an after school day care center instead.

I don't know what I can do, but I'm sad about it. I love this routine and don't want it to change. The callousness of how my ex-wife communicated this makes me feel disposable.