Hey labug,

I'm really confused. This 'grab' by my H for a slice of my superannuation - after he said he would never do that - has really made me think about his motivation in being with me.

From one perspective, he has played me and my parents for our money, and when it's run out, so has he.
I wonder whether I have just been a dupe in this relationship the whole time. The pathetic older woman conned by a two-faced chancer.

I want to think he can't help what he's doing now, but after that proposal - which he had to agree to even if it was prompted by a lawyer on the basis of limited, interested, information - I feel like walking away from him for good.

That he would agree to the idea that I can rent out the house in order to pay the mortgage on my own without any input from him - basically tossing us out into the street - I find incomprehensible.

I don't want THIS man back in my life at all.