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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH pays regular child support, $500 per kid per month for three kids.  The rest of the year she nickel and dimes us for every expense. If DH won't pay half she says "well you can't do x,y,or z bc your dad won't pay."  He pays half for all of the expenses for the expensive club sports during the school year, but when he asks her to pay for half their sports camps when we have them on the summer she refuses.  She sent the kids up in the summer fresh after a lice infestation and didn't tell us until DSD was itching her scalp uncontrollably and I called her to ask why.  She won't pay anything for the lice treatment. She also sent DSD to us with a fungal infection under her arm untreated, bc she doesn't wash their swimsuits regularly.  When I called her to get the docs number to get a referral she said to just go to CVS minute clinic and that it was covered.  Well it wasn't, and now that the $50 tab was mailed to her houseshe is hounding DH to pay it.  She never pays DH back for her half of the plane tix for the kids either.  She just says she can't afford it even though her take home pay is now more than his.  She is just so cheap and manipulative and uses the kids to extort money from us.  I just hate it.  [/quote]

Sounds like my DH's ex.  We also paid 100% of college for both kids on top of all the other expenses.  I begged DH to force her to help pay or have the kids get partial loans but he said that he was not going to let the kids suffer just because of his ex - which I totally understand .  And that if they were still married he would have still paid for all their college instead of forcing them to get loans.

I hope your DH has the college piece figured out because that was a very expensive time in our lives and it will be for you guys as well.  My youngest step daughter has one year of college left and then we are DONE! I told DH that if he even for one minute thought about possibly paying for grad school that it was serious deal-breaker for us.  and I'm not joking.[/quote]

Thats pretty shitty.  Student loan debt can be crippling for people who've just graduated, and you're seriously not going to let him even THINK about paying for grad school?  To screw over the ex?  My God.  What a terrible excuse for a human being and stepmother.[/quote]

Not shitty at all.  Teach adult children to be self sufficient adults, not entitled leeches.  And the ex isn't paying ANYTHING in the PP's case.  If the kids got a free ride from dad for undergrad, they can fund their own grad school, work for a few years and save, etc.  it has nothing to do with screwing the selfish, greedy ex.[/quote]

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