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just a vent.....

post #1 of 7
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my xh.... he is off running around with his girlfriend (the one he cheated with) most likely at the olympics (seriously) but can't afford to pay child support on time. he keeps calling me a baby and says I need to stop asking him to bail me out and do me favors. I am not asking for a freaking bail out. I am asking him to pay his child support on time. every time. he was late last month which made all my bills late. again this month. and yet he is pressuring me to refinance the house. which I can not do because paying bills late wrecked my credit. what was left of it. yet this is all my fault. his solution is that I give him the kids so they can hang out with him and his girlfriend so I can work a second job. Oh heck no!! If he would pay on time every time I wouldn't have to work so much and there is no way he is getting them one more minute that the law forces me to give them to him. i have to protect them from him and make sure they don't turn into him as it is.

am I being irrisponsible for not going out and making more money while he takes the kids? if you guys tell me to get off my lazy butt and go I will but I am trying to be a good monther with what little time I have with them. I work about 30 hours a week (just short of benefits) and cannot get a full time job because I cannot work every weekend or nights. I am working on it. and I work about 30 hours a week from home making stuff to sell on etsy and it makes about $100 a month. not a lot but helps. there is month in the summer and christmas where I will make considerably more.

of course all his financial problems are my fault. screw that. and he had the nerve to talk about how cool he is for taking the debt (which kept me from taking half the business and having adultry as the grounds for divorce. yeah, his motives were super duper....) and how bad I was for getting into debt (most of my debt is medical bills). he even said he was cool because he over paid child support for six months and didn't ask for it back. that money was awarded to me by the courts. again, thanks for being the anti-hero. He stuck me with the house I could not afford. and has no desire to take it back and deal with renters and crap. another reason I cannot keep up. but I cannot sell it without wrecking his credit which I think it is pretty cool of me to hang in there for his sake. but I am about done. even if it means I have to pay more every month at elast I will not have to depend on renters. I am done depending on people to pay me what they owe me.

I am just so sick of all of this. I want a husband. a real husband who will hold me and protect me and take care of me. who likes me. because he thinks I am actually likable. I want a family. I want my kids. I am so tired of being completly and totally alone. but instead I am all alone forced to depend on my xh for money. and it is making me hate him. and I don't want to be a hater. but I am cold and hungry. which makes me cranky. but I have no food and can't afford to pay the heating bill.

i hate this.

i hate that I married such a man as this.


sorry to be so whiney. but my friends and everyone else is tired of hearing it. and don't really get how hard it is. don't understand that I have to protect the kids from him. that I can't just get a sitter but have to run everything by him. wait for his response.
post #2 of 7
I'm so sorry lilyka. You deserve all those things you want and if you keep walking in the right direction I bet you'll get them. I wish I had some sage advice on how to deal with people who's grasp of reality is completely up their butt but I don't. My kids saw their dad for the first time in three years last month and the panic has come back to me. I find myself unable to sleep because I'm so angry that someone could do what he has done. I am laying in bed thinking that he is from hell and he's married to someone who thinks he's just a peach and paragon of manhood and family. Unfortunately, I see her myspace when I check my daughter's page and I swear I want to throw things. Rage....total rage. Please take care of yourself, lilyka, because if you don't take care of yourself no one else will know how to.
post #3 of 7
Just wanted to add that I did find a great person to care for me and keep me warm at night. Life isn't perfect but it's pretty good.
post #4 of 7
i really wish i couldn't sympathise so much. my god, how much are we supposed to tolerate, seriously? why did i ever marry someone like that? how could he treat me and his kids so badly?

tonight's supposed to be his evening with the kids. he asked me to take the evening for him, i said i couldn't because i have a term project due tomorrow. he said 'too bad, i guess they'll spend the night at daycare when no one picks them up'. it turns out that he hasn't given the daycare his new number so they can't call him. so i'm here with the kids and an unfinished project and he's getting a couples massage and seeing a movie with his new girlfriend. i sooooo want to tell his mom about this.

so, yeah. i know exactly how you feel.
post #5 of 7
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it occured to me tonight that my xh said he wouldn't be back in town (he is with his girlfriend in vancouver most likely attending expensive olympic events instead of paying child support in a timely manner) until the 19th but he won't tell me if he is going to be back for his weekly visit. like I have no life. and he claims he does not play games.

and he also said he was going to take me back to court top have his child support reduced. he makes almost $100K a year but is self employed and is not above shady accounting (not paying himself and instead just taking cash from the till, not accounting for a sale or service etc. ) he did it while we were married, why not now. he could easily make himself look destitute.

oh well, still not going to turn my kids over to him just so I can work more. screw him.

and further more I will stay unmarried till the very last alimony payment. just out of spite. grrrrrr
post #6 of 7
You do that. ...feel free to screw his credit too. Almost every nice thing I did for my ex has blown up in my face. I'm not sorry I was nice on a philosophic basis (and for my kids) but I'm still pissed. I'd tell you not to engage with him but I'm sure you've already thought of that.
post #7 of 7
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if he reduces his child support one cent I will let the bank forclose on this house. since his name is still on the mortgage we will sink or swim together. he either has to save my credit or i take him down with me. it is not revenge but he stuck me with this albotros and if he reduces his child support at all i will not be able to afford it. . I am not inclined to sympathy.
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