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Should you and your new husband put child support in your joint account

sosillymom's picture

Hi. I have a question and hopefully someone out there has the same issue.

My ex-husband pays child support and my husband now says we should put it in our joint account.

Should we have a separate account just for the kids?

What do you do --- Stay or call it quits??

Darltk's picture

I don't have many people to talk to about this and sometimes you just need opinions from people who deal with the same issues. So here it goes.....This is our second marriage. I have been married for 7 years now and I have been seriously thinking about calling it quits due to 2 issues. The first issue is the stepdaughter and the second one is how needy my wife is. The wife has no friends that she goes out with and wants it to be just me all the time. It is like I am a substitute for her daughter. She is also bad with money. I save and have a plan to pay off bills, she just wings it.

Can never wait till the weekends are over!

namaste123's picture

Haven't been on in a WHILE! But it seems lately that everything that comes out of my SS7's mouth makes a wave of anger go through me on a daily basis. Now what I have noticed SS5 is now repeating what he says.

Tell me if I am crazy, but here are some examples of things this child has said that make me see red!

1.)I was watching discovery channel and a man had gotten bitten by a snake, SS7 is allowed to watch PG, which it was, but I was the one watching T.V. and he came and sat next to me.

Really desperately need to vent.

MaisyM's picture

I just joined 2 minutes ago but I need to vent now. I'm at the end of my tether and my DH is too.
I've been an SM for 18 months, I have 2 SD's, 10 and 12 years old.

My SD's BM was remarried when I met my DH. She was instantly hostile when she first heard about me but the real problems began when she discovered that I was moving in. It's been 18 months of sheer hell. False accusations have been made to our friends and family, to lawyers, the police and child services. Although the problems began when to get worse when I moved in most of the hostility is directed at DH.

like watching ground hog day...

dsfsdjfn's picture

the same s**** over and over and over...So I thought we had it all under control...BM was occasionnaly asking for stuff, but id convince DH to comply to have peace on earth, DH's mama (who hates me so much she didnt come to our wedding and now DH and her have not talked in over a year) was out my hair...until yesterday the bailiff came to DH's job to serve him...

giving me grief

soxy's picture

how do i handle a 9y.o. boy all of a sudden he does not want me to kiss or hug him (according to my BF ex.the childs mother)and 11y.o daughter suddenly wants dad back because she feels He does not need her anymore?
we have main custody!
things have become uncomfortable, i feel like a stranger again like we 1st started dating.
what do i do?

Do you really miss the skids when they are away?

Manda's picture

I'll be honest...somtimes I do miss them but a lot of times I don't. Especially when they leave their crap all over the house. I often can't wait till they come back home to just tell them to pick their crap up. What REALLY pisses me off is when SS10 throws his clean clothes in his dirty laundry basket because he doesn't want to put his clean clothes away. I found his clean clothes in the wash the other day and told him if I EVER found that again that he would be washing his own clothes like his sister (13) is now!

When does it get easier

Sudomommy's picture

I don't even know where to start. Basically, my boyfriend and I have been together for almost a year. He has three adorable kids all between the ages of 5 and 10. He also has full custody, so it was basically instant family from day one. I'm in my mid-thirties, never been married, lived a very independent life, and then all of a sudden: BAM! A boyfriend, three kids, and the baggage that comes with that (aka, the ex-wife, the painful memories, bad financial situation, etc).
I know we haven't been together very long, but at what point does it all start feeling normal?

SM no acknowledgment - everything is "MY DAD"

Mrs Katch 22's picture

Xmas shopping - I do it, buy the kid her present, she says "I got X, Y, Z, from MY DAD." Or "I can't open to open more presents with MY DAD."

Something happens to OUR DOG but stepdaughter (13) says "My dog at MY DAD's HOUSE xxxxxxx, I hope HE keeps her healthy..." or something like that.

I mean, WTF, is EVERYTHING just her dad?!?!??!?

someone help!!

goaway's picture

Basically a new stepdaughter who is 14yrs old came in from another country sponsored by me of course since I wanted to help out my husband because he wanted his daughter here with him and she comes into our lives and destroys everything but 50% of the fault is my husband's since he did not lay down the rules, she disrespects me, the home, manipulator, takes my stuff and hides in her closet , dresser, addicted to internet, already sexually active, compulsive liar, etc etc told my husband to make her go back to her mother otherwise she needs to leave he took her out of the house to live with

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