Quote: Does your w need to move ahead with the D in order to pursue her dream of law school? IOW, is she dependent on some splitting up of assets in order to afford it?
Answer, she needs this for a lot of things...home, etc, but also in order to go to law school. I know what you are thinking...I already went there....I told her "you wouldn't have to give up going to law school if we were still married. I would support you going." I think I implied it would get paid for. But maybe that's not where you were coming from.
I do think that if her future and her finances were more solidified when we separated that the D would have taken longer. She would never accept me supporting her financially while we were separated. She had a hard enough time having me pay for dinner. She has pride when it comes to self-sufficiency.
Part of my hope is that by setting her free with half the savings and half the home equity that she will feel more on a footing to at least consider a R with me. Probably crazy on my part, but I in a sense think of this D as a last resort in getting her back. Crazy?
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. Theodore Roosevelt
