I (36F) have been divorced from my ex-husband (38M) for four years. We share an eight-year-old daughter, Lily, who primarily lives with me. Our divorce agreement states that he pays $850 a month in child support and has visitation every other weekend.<\/p>\n
Mark\u2014let\u2019s call him that\u2014has always been\u2026 difficult. During our marriage, he\u2019d blow money on impulse buys while I was the one balancing the budget. That pattern hasn\u2019t changed.<\/p>\n
He remarried last year to Jessica (29F), who seems pleasant enough but definitely enjoys a more glamorous lifestyle. Last month, Mark called me out of the blue asking if we could \u201cwork something out\u201d with the child support. Naturally, I thought something serious had happened\u2014job loss, medical bills, something legitimate.<\/p>\n
Instead, he casually told me he wanted to pause his payments for five months so he could fund a lavish European vacation with his new wife. I couldn\u2019t believe what I was hearing. On his next visitation weekend, instead of dropping off Lily, I left a large suitcase at his front door.<\/p>\n
When he opened it, his face drained of color. On top sat a note that read:<\/p>\n
\u201cSince you\u2019d prefer to \u2018pause\u2019 being a father for five months to go on vacation, here are five months\u2019 worth of supplies Lily would need. You wanted to skip supporting her, so I figured you\u2019d rather handle these needs directly instead of sending the money.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I (36F) have been divorced from my ex-husband (38M) for four years. We share an eight-year-old daughter, Lily, who primarily lives with me. Our divorce agreement states that he pays $850 a month in child support and has visitation every other weekend. Mark\u2014let\u2019s call him that\u2014has always been\u2026 difficult. During our marriage, he\u2019d blow money …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9240,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238\/revisions\/9240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}