I could not DISAGREE with you more, Cas.

I am being very protective of the home and the family business. I built the home myself, every nail, shingle and slap of paint. I worked two jobs and literally built this house with my own two hands in my spare time. It has my blood sweat and tears in it. I built it SOLELY for my families benefit, keyword being family. I was humping it for roughly 80-90 hours a week for several years. W wants 40 grand....literally 35,000 dollars more than the equity that the house currently has. Where is my chunk of that prize? Oh right, I am greedy and manipulative, right? I am not being "fair" to the woman who chooses to leave the family unit. What would you consider to be fair, honestly, for both parties? What is "fair"?

Our business has been successfully running and supporting several families for over 40 years. It does not make a mint. Actually it nets a fairly small amount after everything is said and done. It has not made a single dollar more through the benefit of my wife. Actually, it is has benefitted her at times when she did not have any other opertunity for occupation. Now, just because she has been "my Wife" for 9 years my family is supposed to turn part of that over to her? Why?...No really, tell me why exactly I am such a bad person?


Me:46 Her:38
My D: 11
Her S: 8