Our grand daughter was born. This did seem to draw us closer, but, I still had my guard up.
FF also told my W that he was trying to put things back together with his W, and part of their agreement was that my W had to agree to leave the business. Which after a very public outburst about taking her business away from her, my W decided it was time to leave, but, she would only do so with him agreeing to the verbal agreement about if one member of the business left, they took what they brought with them.
Shortly thereafter, our truck got repossessed. W was quite furious about this, but, I told her I expected it. After she calmed down I explained to her that her old restaurant was making money and she had an income that contributed to our bills – she did most of the bills during this time, but, seemed to have forgotten this. Further, I explained that since she started the new restaurant and had no income, our bills exceeded my income by about $1,000 per month! Something I tried to explain to her several times, but, she refused to listen. I was able to get our truck back by selling some accrued leave time back to my employer, but, I think she got the message about the income issues.
Also in August, I finally began receiving the settlement money from my 2009 auto collision. It felt good to pay off bills. Instead of being in the hole by $1,000 per month, we had about $875 for gas & groceries, plus we were able to bank some of my settlement. Then she spent $5,000 on our granddaughter…
