When I saw the first flags--He was working but I wasn't; we'd just moved to MS but when I got the statement EVERY DAY, he went by the bank and took out $20-$40. EVERY day he worked. We weren't hurting for money, I just like to know what the deal is. Then he started staying out later and later --now this is before cell phones--so I'm sitting up waiting and worried. And he was real funky about giving me money...I finally opened up a separate account , and heeded the voice in my head that said, "It's time to go back to work". I did that...then I found out he'd been getting money out of the savings...have cleaned out our son's savings when I moved it out of ours...I asked, fussed, cussed...until that day I got that phone call. He'd been laid off for 10 months...I thought he was looking for work....
But God shows you when you are done. I'd just finished my camp and took 2 weeks off. I realized that when I got up--no matter the time--he was just getting up. Then the phone call day, I'd tried to change the channel that morning...he told me, "Don't change it, A Different World comes on next." He had a ROUTINE...he wasn't out looking for work. While I was working on some real estate, my dad was on the phone cause he said he didn't understand why they wouldn't hire him: college educated, had a stationary engineer certification, not a drug user....so he gets on the phone thne starts yelling for me to get on it. The lady from the Unemployment office said this: "Your husband has missed FIVE appts for good jobs. Mr. Tillman,you can call down here repeatedly but until he comes to the interview, you are wasting your breathe. In addition, he didn't sign up for veterans preference."
I felt like somebody kicked me in the chest. He was living good...off of me.
So, I went home, had one of the most painful arguments ever in which some really ugly things were said...and I asked him to leave. He did...and I have to say, the peace that descended when he drove off was something else...I FELT it lift off...I divorced him and wished him well....It was the right thing to do...we'd moved past reconciliation--though we did try once. Waste of time...and I don't want to waste my time anymore...