Her Husband’s Ex-Wife Is Demanding That She Pitch In Financially To Send Their Kids To Private School Since She Makes $400,000 A Year
This 36-year-old woman has a daughter who is 13 and a husband who is 46. Her husband was married before her, and he has four children with his ex-wife.
Her husband’s kids are 13, 11, 8, and 6. When her husband split from his ex, it was amicable, and he pays for his ex’s house and gives her cash still, as she has always been a stay-at-home mom.
Her husband spends nearly $8,000 a month on this alone. Her husband’s salary is $250,000 a year, which means he pulls in $15,000 a month.
She makes $400,000 a year, which comes out to around $23,000 a month. As for her husband’s ex, she now makes $60,000 a year.
The city where they all live has a very high cost of living. Her husband’s ex lives in a 3-bedroom home, and they live in a 4-bedroom home that costs them around $10,000 a month to have.
Her daughter has her own bedroom, but her husband’s kids share a bedroom in their house, and they spend about 30% of the time with them.
Her daughter’s biological father does not live in their state and doesn’t pay a lot for her child support.
“Between that and my daughter attending private school (started 2 years ago before we married), I pay a little less than half my salary every month to tuition and mortgage payments,” she explained.
“Ex-wife is now asking my husband to either allow my oldest stepdaughter or stepson to have their own bedroom and to send all the kids to private school.”
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“Quite frankly, we can’t afford it. I am making great money now, but was basically paycheck to paycheck most of my daughter’s life. I pretty much decimated my retirement and got into big debt (100k) to start my business that just started thriving last year.”
Her husband’s ex is insisting she favors her daughter over the rest of the kids, but that’s not the case at all.
She always wanted her daughter to go to private school because she’s a straight-A student who has a lot of dreams for herself.
In contrast, her husband’s kids are wonderful but don’t care so much about their education. She thinks they’re different due to how they were raised, and that’s alright, but it doesn’t warrant sending them all to private school if they won’t even appreciate it like her daughter does.
“I told my husband we can consider private school for each kid individually as they get older and they possibly get more academic rigor, but sending 5 kids to private school is just out of the question,” she said.
“I feel like I am being expected to foot this bill because I am successful, but I also have my long-term financial security to work out. He has a healthy retirement (to which his ex is entitled to half), and I have nothing to fall back on if my industry gets a downturn. My career is half his career’s age, I do not have wealth like he has. I asked my daughter if she was ok sharing a room with her stepsister, and she said she would prefer not to since the kids are messy.”
She’s left wondering if it’s wrong of her to not want to help pay to send her husband’s kids to private school, and she’s also curious if it’s wrong of her to not want to change up their bedrooms in their home.
What do you think?
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