Just got a call from a recruiter who saw my resume posted online.
A new job in a new town in a neighboring state, an hour away from stbxw ... it's not much (13 dollars per hour to start) but I'm thinking I'll take it for now.
I've talked to an attorney who actually advised me that it might be a good idea to simply let her have the house. She makes the lion's share of the income, but it'll still be a horrible stretch for her to keep it all by herself with her numerous "habits" coming into play. I'll pay her child support but it won't be much (my income will be small - I was the homemaker) and we'll share custody. Within a year I predict the kids are with me the majority of the time just due to her tendency to alienate all the people around her (including them). By that time I'll be established and can give them (or at least the younger one) a decent life.
On the downside, D15 may go completely nuts when I leave, and start emulating mom and grandma as teenagers. Wild sexual misbehavior, alcohol, drugs. People here say that they wouldn't care about someone else's child, but I was there when she was born and I've loved her every day of her life. I don't know if I want to take the chance.
S13 wants to come with me immediately.
More later. I'm off to GAL.
M:40 W:40 2 teenagers ILYBNILWY: 09 January 2010 soon to be walking away my situation
