Do NOT agree to anything financial about the divorce. Boy, he knows how to push your buttons! He wants to do things without lawyers because he knows what he’s asking for is unreasonable.

Go to mediation. Have your own lawyer to advise you. Don’t give up anything you’re entitled to. Stop having conversations with him about it without your lawyer.

Get your own financial ducks in a row. If you have health and dental insurance through his job, get anything you need done, fine now. If your income isn’t enough to support you, figure out how to increase it.

Let go or be dragged.Letting go of him doesn’t mean you’ve [censored] the door if he suddenly wakes up. But it means you move forward with your own life. The person he is now doesn’t have remorse and doesn’t care what happens to you. So YOU have to look after yourself.

Plan a glorious future for yourself. Dream big.