MWG, Would it matter if you took your XH to verbally speak to your employer? What difference would any of it make? Would he change? Why do you care what he thinks? Honestly, here is a guy who has no means of wiping his own rear-end trying to tell someone he "doubts" things about your job being on hold. LOL MWG, I think you are surrounded by stressful situations and they are caused by the people in your life. Your children really need to experience life a little bit. What I mean by that is, they need to find jobs and live on their own a bit, then they can talk to you about groceries and keeping a roof over head. You need to try to find some peace. Living the way you have been for these years hasn't given you any and I doubt that you will find it continuing to live like this.