Hopefully the mediator can help you with a plan for future money issues!!!! It's still a big issue for me! I don't always feel I need to pay half since my ex's salary is 4x mine. He doesn't feel he needs to pay for anything extra since I get child support.
Keep track of your expenses!
I am in the same boat Matilda. If I ask X about anything he says "that is what child support is for." Actually, child support is based on the child's basic living expenses, not extras. I asked for extracurricular costs to be split but my X refused. And I was asking it to be a 50/50 split even though he makes more than twice what I do and is remarried so is sharing living expenses. But he refuses to contribute anything but the absolute minimum for the kids, then bitches that he doesn't have enough clothes at his house for the kids, I should be providing them. Ugh, how many more years of this will I have to endure?!
FLTC, you are a great dad.....just keep doing what you are doing, your kids will thank you for it.
"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." Jon Kabat-Zinn
