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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here, our custody arrangement during separation is I have my son M-F and my ex has his most weekends, so I am the primary parent. I have had a few jobs, but got married out of school and was a housewife before kids and a caregiver to both my parents for over a decade before they both died from cancer. [/quote]

^This right here is why Op was not working earlier.[/quote]

Still pretty odd. So right from college graduation to "housewife" with no kids for multiple years, then still home, caring for parents? Unfortunately, I have many friends who dealt with parents with cancer in their 20's, but they all worked. Some even took leaves of absence for caregiving, but no one just...stopped straight out of undergrad and did nothing but wifely home and parent healthcare for 18+ years. [/quote]

You can not be a full time caregiver to a sick parent AND work.  Most 20 somethings can not take long leaves of absences from work to care for a sick parent.  Obviously Op stopped working altogether and was able to become a full time caregiver to her parents while remaining on her dh's health insurance.  And she did this for a decade.  A few years ago they had a child and Op continued to SAH with her child.  Now she is divorcing and she doesn't have much in the way of a recent work history.  It is what it is.

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