some updates:

mediation is scheduled for mid-March, but I don't know if that will happen since I don't have the funds for the mediator. my atty advises this is simply an unnecessary and expensive additional step that H wants in order to say "hey, it was a friendly divorce, we did mediation."

as of this morning, I have a raccoon living in my basement. not by invitation. no, I am not making this up.

earlier this week my gas was shut off; I haven't been able to make even the minimum payment since December. I knew it would happen eventually, I just thought there was some rule it had to wait until spring. guess not. researching some assistance; don't qualify for much since I'm an "underemployed professional."

yes, this could definitely affect my custody of D13. and it terrifies me.

I wrote a note to H's pastor earlier this week, pointing out that continuing to support him in all of his liturgical and leadership roles essentially makes them complicit in his moral failure, and breaks the covenant the community made with his family to be as supportive of us as of him, in this priesthood process. I doubt I'll hear back, but it needed to be said.


M60
H52
D20
M14 yrs
OW-old gf from 1986
bomb-5/18/08
H filed for D-9/10/08
D final 4/24/09
xH remarried (not OW) 2012