Do I walk away from WAW? (2)

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I checked out a bunch of reviews of it and it seems to have gotten a lot of bad reactions! From the reviews it does sound sort of like my situation. What did you get from reading it?

Exhausted this morning but about to take my littlest on our Monday walk. W stayed out yesterday from 2 to 9pm, came home just in time for me to go to my gig. I'm baffled that she thinks it's normal to do this, but I'm fine being a de facto single dad right now. Saw her BFF yesterday and she was full of compliments on how I was looking and all my work with the kids. Said she hasn't seen much of my W lately. I said me either. Asked me a bunch of questions about Ws drinking, health, help around the house, I deflected and politely told her to ask W. She asked why her fam wasn't getting more involved. No idea.

This morning W asked me for gas money. I gave her 7 dollars. She kinda scoffed that I was giving her so little, and I just said that I really need to stretch money this week. I sensed a little snippyness as she left. I really need to come up with a game plan for her asking me for money, as it's just going to keep happening.

I've got so many parts of this sitch held down. It's the money thing, and figuring out how to reel her in so she's doing SOMEthing for the family and household, that's really hard. It's like she's just digging a hole straight down, and I'm up here holding a rope.