Wanted to see how you are doing post-D. Sounds like things are going well. The D certainly could have helped remove some of your ex-W anger.
I wanted to address a non-DB issue I saw on one of your posts. Is your child support set up already? If so, I don't recommend paying directly to her. But maybe you just aren't set up yet for having it taken out of your pay. I just mention this because at least in the two states where I've done child support you only get credit for it when it goes through the state/district whatever office. What happens if it doesn't go through them they don't recognize that you paid C.S. for the month and then they are taking the "arrears" out of your check in addition to your monthly C.S. Hopefully you already know that and it just hasn't been finalized yet, but I wanted to at least mention it in case your state is a stickler about that. My now ex works in child support enforcement and there are a lot of guys that pay their ex's directly and then are surprised when their wages get garnished and their tax returns taken because the county/state didn't know the arrangement. Then the child support enforcement refuses to recognize these payments even if the ex-W vouches that she recieved the money.
Quote: I've had a very kind, gorgeous business associate make known her interest to me over the past few weeks.
Glad I'm not in your shoes. The gorgeous portion of your statement might cause me some difficulties, especially since she's also very kind. That combination would certainly be quite attractive.
Take care
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