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<blockquote data-quote="HMBgal" data-source="post: 709597" data-attributes="member: 13260"><p>Yep, raising two. One easy 8 year-old girl (fully recognizing that it could change any minute) and one very difficult 10 year old (explanation in my signature). It's exhausting. I want to retire but can't because I can't afford to. Retired husband would like to not have kids all the time so we could maybe go on a vacation (it's been years). I'm finally on the verge of considering retirement next year but will have to cash out and move because the cost of living is so high here. We can buy a lovely home for cash elsewhere, but have to consider where the kids will have good schools, and good special education. I did not see this coming. My daughter will never be able to take these kids on. Her ex is remarried to a woman who came into the marriage with three kids of her own (all different fathers, never married any of them) and then had one more with the ex, who is now almost 3. She has no desire to have anything to do with my grandkids--her husband's children. And she flat out refuses to even been in the same room or care for my grandson in any way. They just moved two thousand miles away, has called twice since December, and only pays $500 per month for both kids, and has only been doing that for less than a year. And he's increasingly late with it. </p><p></p><p>There are good things, too, because we love them so much and want them to have some kind of a childhood. But I'm not going to lie: it's been hard for us. And my husband is so resentful of my daughter (his step-daughter since 1981 when she was 5 years old) because of the increasingly bad choices she's making with men, jobs, and on and on. I'm there, too. Fed up to the point where it's hard to even be polite to her sometimes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HMBgal, post: 709597, member: 13260"] Yep, raising two. One easy 8 year-old girl (fully recognizing that it could change any minute) and one very difficult 10 year old (explanation in my signature). It's exhausting. I want to retire but can't because I can't afford to. Retired husband would like to not have kids all the time so we could maybe go on a vacation (it's been years). I'm finally on the verge of considering retirement next year but will have to cash out and move because the cost of living is so high here. We can buy a lovely home for cash elsewhere, but have to consider where the kids will have good schools, and good special education. I did not see this coming. My daughter will never be able to take these kids on. Her ex is remarried to a woman who came into the marriage with three kids of her own (all different fathers, never married any of them) and then had one more with the ex, who is now almost 3. She has no desire to have anything to do with my grandkids--her husband's children. And she flat out refuses to even been in the same room or care for my grandson in any way. They just moved two thousand miles away, has called twice since December, and only pays $500 per month for both kids, and has only been doing that for less than a year. And he's increasingly late with it. There are good things, too, because we love them so much and want them to have some kind of a childhood. But I'm not going to lie: it's been hard for us. And my husband is so resentful of my daughter (his step-daughter since 1981 when she was 5 years old) because of the increasingly bad choices she's making with men, jobs, and on and on. I'm there, too. Fed up to the point where it's hard to even be polite to her sometimes. [/QUOTE]
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