It's something I think about recently. More so about my X and His lack of.

Take for instance court last month where we spent over 4 hours sat in rooms while our barrister's negotiated until finally we agreed on something. Then we went before the Judge where everything we agreed on was repeated by my barrister and His barrister agreed that his client agreed and then the Judge agreed. You get the gist?
What did we agree on? Well He is to pay 2/3 of the mortgage and the council tax (currently I get these paid for being on income support) and I continue to pay 1/3 of the mortgage. He is to pay £285 into my account on the 1st of the month. This is £200 for food and £85 towards household bills.
Needless to say He hasn't paid anything and says He didnt agree to it. He did suggest I give him my shopping reciepts and then He would give me cash for half. This is because he thinks I don't spend £100+ per week on food/groceries. Well I would like to see him shop for seven for a week and see how much it comes too!

I didn't really expect Him to pay anything. Why should He change now just because of a court order.

In the meantime He's mad at me because I've asked for 60% (instead of the original 50% if the house was sold)seeing as He is going to buy me out. No selling expenses and the amount outstanding on current mortgage goes down every month. Also with the three elder children (all over 17 years) staying here at the house, I can't very well take all the furniture and leave them with nothing. Does 60% seem reasonable? Seeing as He also had all the cash from bank charges from our joint account that we won back (2.5k) and He hasn't paid anything towards food/house/bills since He moved back into the house last November.
Also got to take into account that once He's paid me I won't be able to claim income support anymore, will have to rent a house until i've found work and and bought a house. Argggggghhhh.

Social services finally phoned after a year of waiting. I told the guy who called that he was a bit late, updated him on the past year and told him I was going for residency. He told me there would be no problem with me getting custody and moving and they would write this in their report when CAFCASS get in touch with them.

Jake bought me flowers yesterday. He hasn't been the nicest of teenagers for a few days and it was his way of saying sorry. I said the flowers were great, however that fact that he'd noticed he'd been a pain in the arse was even better.

It's also October, which means Harriet is having her 'low' at the moment and this doesn't bode well for any of us. She has been to the Drs to ask for help.

I suppose I should go clean up the breakfast mess.........