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Words Are Cheap


glitter-graphics.comI'm really going to try to have this by my last negative post, at least for a while. It's been a long, long day. We're getting the legal paper work done for our divorce. I was so excited to get my mom on the phone today and then it ended in a big, hurtful conversation which ended with her hanging up on me. The house situation is causing lots of stress. We have no equity so I want to just sign it over to him but because of the way his income is, we have the loan in my name. He is only on the deed. So the problem is that he can't get the loan in his name and that would leave my credit all tied up indefinitely. I want him to be able to keep the house but it is a big risk and obligation to have to keep legal responsibility for payment of the house to which I sign over all rights to. I need to figure out what I should do. If I decide to sell, he is going to move out right away which will leave the mortgage unpaid.

My G and his kids came over tonight and I was just miserable. I even tried to isolate myself but he refused to let me. As always he reminds me that he wants to prove to me that he loves all of me, not just the good parts. He wants to prove that he can hande me at my worst. He noticed my email quote right away when we started writing: "If you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best. Marilyn Monroe

Finally after about 2 1/2 of his comfort and best friend chats, I felt great. I remembered how much I had missed his smile and the feel of his hand in mine just since the other day. Then it was time for him to go home and within 20 minutes of him leaving, I'm down again. I'm thinking about all that first paragraph garb and I want to let it go. I probably could have let it go except I saw that I had two voice mails. One of them was from my Mom, saying that she had talked to the ex and now she completely believed he wasn't out to hurt me and that there was no equity in the house. She also emphasized how "hurt" he was. I know it's only natural she will care for him as long as he's been in our lives but I just hate how sometimes it feels like she can see everybody's perspective except mine.

posted on June 13, 2008 8:54 PM ()

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I don't think leaving the house in your name with you signing off on it sounds like a very good idea. I hope you can find a way to sever all those financial ties between each other. I left the electricity in my name after I divorced my ex and he hadn't switched it out of my name for almost two years until I called him on it. Get everything in writing, everything. Trust me on this.
comment by shesaidwhat on June 18, 2008 10:36 AM ()
I don't know if this will help at all, but my parents continued to help my then "soon to be ex" by giving him rides when he needed transportation, by listening to him when he needed to talk, etc. Sometimes they were just trying to be "rational" when they were defending anything about him, but they were not truly taking sides or not being supportive of me. It seemed like that, though...and it wasn't until much later on that I realized the position they were in and why they were trying to at least be a little understanding of him and his side. So, you see, it does happen.

I don't know what the laws are in your state, but I do not understand why you can not sell the house...hopefully for a profit. No, neither one of you will necessarily get anything out of the sale because the money will have to go on the mortgage...maybe all or most will be paid off? (In RI, everything is 50/50 for whatever exists/existed within the years of marriage, so any unpaid mortgage becomes an equal responsibility of both parties unless a different stipulation is drawn up and AGREED to in court, usually at the time of the divorce. If the sale of the house takes place before the divorce date, the responsibility may fall on one person... depending on the agreement signed at the time of securing the mortgage... but as of the court date, the other person is often required to pay back half of the total amount paid out, to pay half of any remaining balance, and/or to pay off the entire amount if equal to anything already paid.) So, get all your paperwork and know exactly what the story is and find out exactly what options, if any, are available to you now or when they will be available. Knowing all of these facts may help you decide what really is the best thing to do.
comment by donnamarie on June 16, 2008 11:18 AM ()
I haven't read you before, so I won't comment on things because I would have too many prying Scorpio questions. I will comment on this though:
"I just hate how sometimes it feels like she can see everybody's perspective except mine." My mom does the same thing to me.
And I will start reading you more because I like your perspective on things. I especially liked the list of things you are working on about yourself. Realizing that you can't control what and how others do is a huge thing to come to terms with for me.
I don't know you, but I think you are going to make it quite well.

comment by walkwithgrace on June 14, 2008 1:41 PM ()
He may not have meant to hurt you, but that doesn't mean that he didn'd do just that. As for his hurting, that is a natural result of severing a relationship. Surgery hurts, but that does not mean that it is not better in the long run to do just that. Don't let them get you down, Sis. You have every right to be doing what you are doing and finding out happiness. It is better for everyone in the long run.
Aaron
comment by lunarhunk on June 14, 2008 1:17 PM ()
comment by hopefields on June 14, 2008 1:28 AM ()
Those are some very insightful quotes by Marilyn.
comment by mellowdee on June 14, 2008 12:27 AM ()

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