I am asking this because 2 weeks ago my wife and I had an interesting conversation on the phone that was sparked by divorce talk. She was complaining about getting a bill in the mail from her lawyer. She was trying to guilt me into just agreeing with her proposal saying that the kids will be hurt if she has to pay me child support. But then I told her that I was not going to change my mind and left the house. She called me 15 minutes later and we had a 40 minute convo. It had been 3 months without any real communication between us about us. For about 1.5 months I have been doing a good job of going dark, LRT, etc.
Did you ask her why she believed the kids would be hurt by her paying you child support?
I would ask if she thought divorce would hurt the kids more than her paying child support?
Most children I'm sure would rather have a family instead of growing up with divorced parents. They suffer emotionally because of it.