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[quote=Anonymous]H leaving me with only a temporary work permit, our child to take care of, and “generously” paying about 85% of our rent. 
I was out of the workforce for 6 years because he was dragging his feet about our green cards. So I had to quickly find a job, any job, to feed the child and pay those 15% of the rent. I was babysitting, pet sitting, cleaning houses, taking part in clinical trials and focus groups, other odd jobs, all the while looking for a full time professional job and worrying about the green card.
I was living in this invisible poverty, where to the world I was (still) married to a software engineer with a 200k HHI. Yet I was dirt poor as he cut off access to “his” money. I felt I could not tell anyone because of the green card (though it was not a marriage based case and it was a bona Fide marriage and a long term one). 
I am now a permanent resident and have a great full time professional job, I can afford enrichment for my son.
I have yet to pluck up my courage to file for divorce - stbx is not going to be happy with what he will have to pay in child support...
I realize it sounds minor compared to a lot of situations here. But the worst was the invisibility and shame of my near- poverty. 
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