Hi FLTC! I just want to say that not all guys get scr*wed in D. In fact, statistics say that divorced women and their children tend to lose far more than divorced men. However, it may be a whole kettle of other fish in your case. I think your W is playing you ... using your guilt over the kids, your good nature, and who knows what else. What does she have to be so angry and miserable about? Is she depressed? She is living in a beautiful house, acquiring money she didn't have to work for, in a country where women have freedom to do whatever they want, and still she and so many others like her, are unhappy?! Boggles my mind. Which is why I wonder if she is depressed.
You have to protect yourself, financially, and you can find a way to do so without impoverishing your family, I am sure. I live in a $300,000 house, and am very happy in it, for instance. To not protect yourself would be foolish and unnecessarily sacrificial. What message would that send your W, and your children?
Keep yer head down!
Me:57 H:52 M:28 Got another lawyer last year and filed. D35,S/D twins28,D22 EA4/04 End? Who knows? "Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you." — Peace Pilgrim