Standing up to the punches

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Update....

For 2 days wife and I had been have email convo regarding child support. Wife wanted to put in decree that 20% of my bonus money that might get at my job also needs to go as part of child support payment. This was not part of the texas law. Now i was anyway planning on stashing a lot of my bonus money in a savings entity for my daughter's future. But that was not something my wife needed to know about.

So i thought she understood when i told her that yes i would be saving my daughter, but not with something where the decree actually mentions it. So wife replies back saying that she would not remove it from the decree. I emailed back saying that i'd then be forced to now retain a lawyer and fight her.

What hurts is that I restrained from using a lawyer till now because i thought that involving lawyers would increase the estrangement between us. Right now wife is leaving me no choice but to go that route. Why in the world should this happen???
I thought we were a decent family until december last year. I cannot believe wife is actually doing this. I agreed to almost everything she wanted. I guess now i'll fight her on everything. She has to know that she just cannot keep beating me down and i'll just lay down and take it.

sorry, had to vent out.