Living with WAW who will not leave

[Casey]

I had a question; maybe someone out there has an answer...

I work midnight shift Tue - Sun, and I was thinking that maybe that might be a large part of why W is not leaving. She works second shift from three until midnight and neither one of us makes enough for daycare for our stb 8yr old. Any of you with children in a similar situation feel free to chime in. How do you manage to watch your children by yourself when your work schedule does not line up with your child's school schedule?

Please do not say get a different job or shift; for me that is unrealistic. My current job, which is with the railroad, pays well enough that I could live as a single parent if I had to, and the benefits and security are excellent. Unfortunately, I have to pay my dues so-to-speak, and after several yrs I can get onto a better shift when I have seniority.

I have no clue how W plans to do it; having thought about it a lot in the past several days I have now come to the conclusion that that is most likely why she doesn't leave because I am her daycare. She has no girlfriends who can help her out with that, and neither one of us has family here. She wants to bring her mom here but it would only be for 6 months at most before her mother would have to return to her country, and W doesn't have the resources to pay for living on her own let alone another family member.

Maybe I need to rent a three bedroom apartment and sublet one of them to an attractive college student in return for childcare