Today is one of those days and I need to vent.

I'm so sick of being broke. I make $100k / year and my parasitic estranged wife is stealing $2,400 from my net pay each month. After I pay rent today, I'll have $8 to carry me through to next Tuesday. Rent, groceries, modest car payment, phone, utilities, insurance, attorneys fees, counseling... It all adds up. She's slow stepping the divorce to milk me dry. One of the last things she said before stonewalling and hitting me with blatantly false accusations is "I had a dream you cheated on me and I was ruining your life in the divorce." She has BPD and cheated on me. She was pregnant. She chose to not put me on the birth certificate. My youngest daughter is 3 months old, and I haven't met her. Her smear campaign is that I "didn't take responsibility for the baby" and people actually believe her! We're still technically married - legally I'm supposed to be on the birth certificate by default! She also didn't get the baby a social security card because of her paranoid delusions.

Of my gross pay, I receive a net of approximately 30% after everything is taken out. It's so discouraging knowing that for every 60 minutes I work, 42 minutes are for naught. I have difficulty focusing throughout the day and generally feel very depressed at work (in a director level management position) even though I do like my job and my employer.

On the bright side, I have an AMAZING girlfriend and incredible daughters who love me very much. The succubus doesn't control me anymore. I don't have to walk on eggshells anymore. I don't have to dread going home anymore. I'm broke but I love my apartment, and I've re-engaged in hobbies that the demon ex guilted me away from. Life is better, but today just really fucking sucks.