My wife walked out on me four days ago and took my daughter with her to go live with family. Now I'm alone in an empty apartment trying to process the past 4 years and how I'm going to come up with the money to pay child support (it's mandatory where I live even with 50/50 custody) while barely making enough to get by on my own. I've been living off of ramen and peanut butter and I'll probably have to get a new apartment when the lease on this one expires.

I've seen my daughter 2 out of the past 4 days, and my now ex wife sends me updates everyday which I appreciate. But it's painful seeing her knowing that she's never going to have a healthy mother/father family dynamic and she's not old enough yet to really understand what's going on.

So that's my life now. Sorry if I rambled. I'm just trying to figure out how you all actually deal with the mental strain of something like this because I gotta tell you it's tough.