If you follow sandi's advice, your H is either going to snap out of his ridiculousness - or he won't. But you can bet that - if you follow her advice - you will be a helluva lot happier a helluva lot quicker.

T, I know you don't want it, but I think you'd be SO much better off if H just got out of your hair for a few weeks at a time. That's the only thing that helped me when H was gone. But it's like he could sense when I was about to really let go, and here he came, rolling up in his truck to "move more things." It was always something. Finally, I realized how seeing him always set me back. And that's one main reason I was prepared to move.

I really hope that you will lawyer up and get financial support, at the very least, in motion - stat. You shouldn't have to walk on eggshells just because you're afraid he's going to stop financially supporting his boys. And please TRY not to worry so much about splitting the kids for holidays etc. I know that fear very well, and I know what I'm saying is easier said than done. But, honestly, our fear of those things is usually so much worse than what ends up being reality. Right now, there are a lot of emotions involved. That won't always be the case.


M: 40 H: 44
Married 14 years
S11 & D6; D20 & D19 from previous M
2BDs/PAs, 8 years apart
Piecing: April 2014