Macy, I am in awe. Your kids are right…you are so much stronger than you know.
Ask for the moon, particularly for your son, and ask for it now, up front, more than payments over time, because he has no ethics or morals and he’ll weasel out of it the second he thinks he can. If your lawyer plays this right, it’ll never go to divorce court because your ex would be exposed by that, both criminally and publicly, and he’ll do anything to avoid that. So please don’t be hobbled by trying to be fair, or trying to placate him. You own half PLUS what your child will need. Plus combat pay, dammit.
This is why he’s stomped down so hard on you all these years. You’re everything he’s not and he’s afraid of that.
Use it.
