Tag Archives: financial problems

Are You Having A Cranky Monday Too?

Posted on March 28, 2022 by janieleeds

I’ve rewritten this post a few times already, but I’m just going to hit send when this is done. I’m cranky today. Have you ever just felt cranky and want to enjoy it? LOL I know that probably sounds silly, … Continue reading →

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‘Twas A Long Weekend Indeed

Posted on December 1, 2021 by janieleeds

Ok, so my last post about the cranky kid and detoxifying the kids after spending many hours with their dad and his family evolved into a bunch of different conversations with each of the kids over the past few days. … Continue reading →

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Monday Blues

Posted on March 11, 2019 by janieleeds

Being a single parent, ex-wife of a narcissist who’s not paying what’s legally owed me and raising two college kids with anxiety on my own is hard.  My story isn’t unusual, but sometimes it feels harder to deal with than … Continue reading →

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When Men Get Divorced, Why Do They Stop Paying?

Posted on March 4, 2019 by janieleeds

Many women complain that men, after they get divorced, stop paying financially and also emotionally for their kids.  It’s like once they’re liberated from their family unit, they cut the ties irrevocably.  Maybe it’s guilt that disconnects them because they … Continue reading →

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Lesson Reminder – Divorced From A Narcissist

Posted on February 2, 2019 by janieleeds

I had to contact my divorce lawyer and pay him to help me again because my ex-husband intentionally betrayed the divorce agreement.  Time and again, he thinks the rules don’t apply to him.  But they do and if I’m the … Continue reading →

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Life Is Tough These Days

Posted on January 18, 2019 by janieleeds

There’s some blood moon, wolf moon eclipse coming and it sure feels like the world’s people have become untethered.  Me included.  So much debris floating under the surface, just when I thought things were getting better.  But they’re not getting … Continue reading →

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I Can’t Stop Crying

Posted on September 8, 2018 by janieleeds

Have you ever had one of those days when you are just weary and weepy and you can’t stop crying?  Well, I’m in the throes of one today.  There are a lot of issues in my life right now that … Continue reading →

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These Mountains

Posted on August 13, 2018 by janieleeds

How many times have we gotten caught up in the – but I have to do X or if I don’t do Y, nobody will or Z should be completed on time and nobody but me has remembered. I carry … Continue reading →

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Do You Feel That Heaviness In The Air?

Posted on June 10, 2018 by janieleeds

It’s rainy out today.  My house is a mess.  I have loads of laundry to do.  Why can’t these kids do their own laundry or at least not wait until Sunday to hand me a two ton pile of dirty … Continue reading →

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