Splitting with my husband due to his alcohol and drug abuse. He is the main earner.
He has agreed to continue paying the mortgage on our house so I can continue living here with the DC. He expects me to cover everything else.
After paying bills and childcare I will be left with £477 a month for food, petrol, clothes and any other expenses.
After paying the mortgage here and then rent and bills on a place for him to live Ex-DH will be left with £1,000 for food, clothes and alcohol and drugs for himself. He will basically come out of this situation better off as currently we only have a couple of hundred pounds a month each to spend on ourselves.
Can I ask him to contribute more? The mortgage is £1600 a month and CSA would only be £600, so I know he is paying way more than he has to. But still it seems unfair that he basically gets to carry on his lifestyle while we will be counting pennies.
And before anybody says I do appreciate others have less money to feed themselves and their children. But for us this is a big drop and it's going to be a struggle at first.
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