I first met my spouse about fifteen years ago and at that point we both already had jobs, so at our twenty-four we were both earning quite well. After four years of living together, we were already able to buy our own place, with help from some relatives. And right after we bought the house, it was registered in my name.
A year and a half later we decided to get married and the only person who didn’t like being there was my mother-in-law. My spouse’s mother and I did not get along when we met. Most of the time she just didn’t say anything to me, but there were times when we fought and there was nothing I could do about it.
As soon as we started living in our apartment, I was already pregnant and the baby was born just when we had planned. But we didn’t even think we would have a second child later on, but it did happen. Life was great and we didn’t even fight, because my spouse helped me with everything and I helped him with everything. When I got a job, we earned so much money together with my husband that we could afford to go on vacation every month abroad.
I didn’t even expect that all this good life would ever end, and I believed in living happily ever after. But then my husband’s company went bankrupt and he decided to find a new job right away, because he wasn’t going to sit without earning money. He wanted to find a job with the same salary that he had received before, but he could not find anything like that, so he just sat at home and leafed through vacancies all day long.
After six months my husband just stopped being interested in jobs and got used to living off me, and his mother constantly wanted to make him go to work somewhere with at least a small salary, because life does not stop at the fact that he was fired.
Later, I noticed that my spouse started drinking and along with his friends he was constantly coming to our house to drink. He was constantly angry when he drank, but in the morning he pretended to be the kindest man in the world and didn’t even remember yelling at me and the kids the night before.
I was tired of seeing him drinking all the time, so I just filed for divorce so I could go on living in peace with my sons. I decided that I would give fifty thousand to my spouse and ask him to leave the apartment because I wasn’t going to live with him anymore. My spouse said that he regretted tying his life to alcohol and realized that it was better for the children not to live with a father like that who drank all the time.
We didn’t even talk about my spouse once with his mother, because she wasn’t interested in our family’s life at all. And just when my spouse moved out, his mother started calling me a lot. She started asking me for money, but I said that I had two children to feed, and she gets a pretty good pension. And if my ex-spouse is still having problems, I’m not going to give him money for that.
But then the mother of my spouse became even more angry and began to prove to me that I am obligated to give her money for the rest of his life, because her son left and left me the apartment, although we both earned money for it. Now my mother-in-law has also started accusing me that my spouse is now leading such a lifestyle, because I did not appreciate him enough, so he began to consider himself unnecessary.
I was tired of listening to this every day, so I snapped at the mother of the spouse and said that he was constantly drinking because of his spinelessness, and I was constantly supporting him. I also said that I would not help anyone with money, because my mother-in-law is a grown woman and a pension should have provided a life to live only on payments from the state, not on the money of his daughter-in-law.
And when she started asking me for money again, I just filed for child support and now my husband owes me more money.
