It's MY life now!!!........

[Silent Chrleader]

Thanks, peace.

I don't know how "amazing" I am doing, but I am slowly beginning to feel more comfortable in my own skin, so to speak.

At one point during our conversation, STBXH looked at me and said "I make more money than you, and that's just the way it is.....sooner or later you're going to have to live with-in your means." That statement is true, but it is so condescending!! And that's typical of the kind of thing he used to say during our M. And I definitely don't miss having to live with that!!

However, to give him his due, when I teared up (I hate it when I do that because I know he sees show of emotion as a weakness) and reminded him of how it was the loan on my retirement plan, and me giving him the majority of my bonus last year that made the payments on the dream property and bought us the time such that now we are able to "save" it for him. I told him that from the beginning I have tried to be as generous and "amicable" as I can be, and I don't deserve that treatment. In the end, he backed off.

The truth is that I know without the bankruptcy and the whole issue of "me getting it rather than creditors", I think that I likely would have had a real fight on my hands to get "support" from STBXH.

Well, tomorrow I have two consecutive dance lessons. Hustle and then West Coast Swing. WooHoo!

(((((hugs)))))