I hope all is well for everyone out there in this supportive community. Just needed to rant and vent and hear from people in my shoes and that have been there before.

For me, the inevitable happened and is leading to her moving out soon. In the long run I know it’s for the better and am really not super upset about that part. I couldn’t take the resentment and lack of respect much longer even trying to just do it for the kids.

To me it’s the nastiness that comes with all of it that gets me. Mostly when it comes down to the kids and money. It sucks going from seeing them everyday to being shut out to a few days here and there. And asking for extra money every month I do not have.

This initial period sucks. And during the holidays tops it all off. No matter what I’m looked at as the bad guy in her eyes (have been for years) not to mention how guys get screwed in this whole process.

All in all I just feel like I failed the kids.