Trying to move on

[ClingingToHope]

I doubt she'd ask for it. If you assume the best from her, but prepare for the worst, it might help. Remember, she might be afraid, too.

There's two things at work here. There's joint custody -- which I'll get -- that's the right to have a say in major decisions in the girls lives.

Then there's "physical custody" and she's asking for sole "physical" custody while I get visitation rights.

That's what I'm fighting against. If she gets it, I have to pay her 28 percent of my net income even though they are basically with me nearly half the time.

If you factor in that I'll have to pay half insurance premiums, daycare and summer camps and she makes more, that would leave me with about $900 every two weeks while she'd be getting $2,100.

My attorney said he doesn't believe a lawyer will find that fair. That gives me some hope, but now that she's leaving it up to her lawyer it's going to be a fight.

I didn't want any of this. I just wanted a second chance.