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Seconding. Furthermore, please don't feel like you gotta stay together "for the kid". At least ask the kid whether they care. My parents asked me. I told them I
by scrollaway 6y ago
Seconding. Furthermore, please don't feel like you gotta stay together "for the kid". At least ask the kid whether they care. My parents asked me. I told them I didn't care.
- giantg2 6y agoThe kid is 2, so they don't really know.
- atat7024 6y agoHopefully for them you've sorted this one way or another in the next year or so. Kids are more perceptive than anyone gives them credit for.
- random314 6y agoLooks like you are less than 10 years into the marriage. Get out ASAP. You are stuck with alimony for basically half the length of your marriage. Unless it exceeds 10 years. Then you are stuck for life.
- giantg2 6y agoI think that varies by state.
- atat7024 6y agoKnow, soon.
- elyobo 6y agoWow, those are some crazy laws. Child support is mandatory around here, and follows well defined rules, but spousal support ("alimony") is much less well defined and (in my limited understanding) less common and shorter lived. Edit: "around here" being Australia and New Zealand