Had a couple of $ discussions with W again recently. W gets paid on Thursday and there were some bills due this week, so I added them all up and calculated various payment scenarios based on her income part-time, full-time and a 50/50 split. I told her we had $1,200 of bills due between now and her next paycheck after this one, so how much are you willing to pay?
W says, well they aren't all due now, just pay the water bill and I can write you a check for $15. I pay the water bill and schedule the phone/cable/internet payment too and tell her. She says, do you want a check for $15? I probably should have taken it, but I said no, lets figure it out when you get paid.
So this morning I am walking down the steps and she asks me to write a $25 check for the babysitter. She has written one for $15. I think about it for a while and on my way out the door to work I tell her she can pay the babysitter, I am not going to. What? she asks. I tell her, you can pay the babysitter. You get paid tomorrow and the check won't clear before then anyway. Goodbye. She did not reply and I left.
The rest of the bills don't have to be paid until after our court date on Monday, so maybe I'll just wiat to see what happens with that.
This just continues to blow me away. If I were the one requesting a divorce, I would do my best to become independent as soon as I could so I wouldn't have to rely on my STBX to take care of me. Maybe that is easy to say from my position, but come-on. I just don't get it. Entitlement mentality.... Princess theory......
