Yesterday was payday. I only get paid once a month. My check was lower than I estimated (and I always guess low to give myself a little cushion). After paying bills, and buying a grocery store gift card (we've done this for a couple years now...ensures we ALWAYS have food money), and dog food, we only have $111.00 left. I don't know how we're going to make it through the month. There's NEVER been this little money left for the month. NEVER. I already had my student loans deferred for a few months and I'm not paying Hubby's child support. I don't know what we're going to do.

We all say it...typically right before we say something offensive. Why is it that we think that just because we say "no-offense" we can then proceed to say ANYTHING we want and the person HEARING the aforementioned offensive remark has no right to be angry. I mean after all, we said no offense right?

I was reading some posts about Child Support and Injured Spouse claims and all that jazz. It got me interested again because I never really could pin an answer down to how the "injured spouse" thing works and led me to do some "googling"...

What I found basically told me that BioBitch will get half of MY return even though Hubby did not work at all in 2009. What I read said that they will split the return right down the middle, giving half to BioBitch due to Hubby's arrears and half to me.

I've been reading a lot of others' posts today and I've noticed a theme. Many of the posts, answers, comments, etc that I've read have pretty much said that since we love our husbands, we should try to make them happy. Now, I'm all for doing nice things for the ones we love because it will make them happy (ex: I bring my husband home a Dr. Pepper because I know he really likes them and I also know he won't walk down to the gas station to get one), but what I'm not ok with is this idea that I should be RESPONSIBLE for their happiness.