This past summer, XH decided that he didn't want to pay child support anymore. More than likely due to his engagement, upcoming wedding and honeymoon. The financial side of things is business that can't be ignored. Mine is working out because I finally had the sense to do what I was advised to do on these boards when I first came here - get it in writing and make it legal. Maybe yours will take care of you - but what would it hurt to get it in writing and make it legal?
The Marriage is the ship sailing on the ocean, the ship sails into choppy waters, begins to sink, you both jump off the one lands in the lifeboat one in the water.
The betrayed spouse in the lifeboat in trying desperately to get the MLC-er back into the lifeboat, as the BS struggles to do so the MCL is struggling to stay in the water and in that struggle the lifeboat tips over and now both of you struggle to make it to land.