Pardon me while my head explodes...

[AlienGirl]

Last night Otter, my ex, called me with a mouthful of apple pie his new girlfriend had baked for him. (He told me that's what he was eating.) He called to let me know he would not be able to buy the tickets he had agreed to buy so I could go see Riley on his birthday, and I would have to buy them myself. They cost as much as my rent does.

Then today, he told me he is close to being fired for "poor performance" at his job--undoubtedly the result of having to juggle career and kids. (Subtext: it's my fault for irresponsibly moving away.)

That popping sound you just heard is my head exploding like an overripe puffball mushroom!! GAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Tucker

[Maine-i-acs]

1. Count your blessings...

and file for primary custody if you don't have it already.

[Interrobang]

2. Well, honey...

He thought he knew what he was doing when HE filed divorce papers to YOU when YOU were sick (possibly dying at the time?) from cancer. He thought he knew what he was doing when HE drove YOU over to a friend's house and dumped you on their doorstep. He thought he knew what he was doing when he told you less than emphatically to clean off the porch, omitting that your land-person had threatened to evict you -- when you were sick (possibly dying? who knew then?) with cancer, and then blamed YOU for not doing it, even though you weighed 80lbs and could barely move: He was trying to cause trouble that he could blame on YOU.

Now that HIS beastly behaviour has come back to bite him on the ass with big, sharp, poison-filled teeth, it's obviously YOUR fault. Tell me something, Tucker...does he read a lot of Ayn Rand? 'Cause he sure sounds like he's the type of person who considers that he could really get ahead in life, if only the losers and whiners around him would stop holding him back and dragging him down (and he's elected you one of the whiner losers), when in reality, he's holding an automatic rifle at his own feet and pulling the trigger, over and over again (which I think is the textbook definition of the classic Objection^H^Hivist)...

...and if I ever meet him I'm going to (redacted by order of DU mods)

[Maine-i-acs]

3. Since he's got it so rough,

Take custody of the kids, so he can concentrate on his career (ne: Ego). That way he can pony up some child support.

[AlienGirl]

4. The problem is...

Right now *I'm* in no condition to have primary custody, financially speaking. I make less than a thousand dollars a month and have no benefits.

Tucker

[latebloomer]

5. What about if he gave you child support?

Maybe you could swing it then?

[LeftCoast]

6. Don't know what to tell you

but how 'bout a hug?

:hug: