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[quote=Anonymous]Thank you everyone for your advice. Without divulging much personal info, my family doesn't live around here and doesn't have the money sadly to help wether with a lawyer or a place to stay.

X's boss isn't married but bargaining that is an idea.

At one point I pulled out what very little I had in retirement and paid a lawyer, he drafted two documents and I had done all the work and he knew my situation upfront and still cost me over 3.5K. So that's one of the reasons I'm hesitant to hire one for the duration. And he was useless at telling me what my legal rights financially were, just that I needed to tell him what I wanted.

As for this poster, "This OP actually sounds like a WOHM writing this post based on her disgust at SAHMs.

It doesn't make sense that she couldn't get any job - not even retail. I know lots of young women who have no job experience, no life experience that have walked in and gotten retail jobs. There are many people without even high school diplomas who have figured out how to make more than 15K a year." It's almost better not to respond to you, I think. But, if I had any disgust with SaHMs I wouldn't have stayed home to raise my young one. I admire them and think they're amazing. I regret being married to a dick while being a SaHM because I didn't have a backup financial plan and that screwed me. I have a BA and had a pretty decent job before staying home and now, I'm either overqualified for the smaller stuff or under qualified for the bigger stuff. Even some retail jobs told me they couldn't hire me because  the hours I provided for availability weren't enough. Maybe you have somewhere to leave your kids, but I take care of mine all day and all night but every other weekend, and it's making it impossible to commit to positions esp when my ex deliberately is late (seriously late) to every drop off and pick up. And on days I tell him it's important, he sabotages it and then pretends in front of the mediator despite documentation that I am lying.  If I could get a damn job, I would, anything at this point because I need to freaking get out of this. I tried occasional babysitting and even applied to a couple of nannying positions.

Thanks to everyone's kind words and all the good advice. I appreciate all of it.

*I didn't proof read this so pardon any mistakes. [/quote]

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