Oh yes, I know. I'll still save for a pension one day soon as I won't ever rely on anyone else. I've always been too independent to rely on anyone, not even DP. I've got my plan, and who knows. Perhaps when I get to retire, I will be able to live the wild life with my pension, and his dosh...
. I'll be one crazy old lady! But on the plus side, my children will have money to help them through life. Not soon enough to help DS1 on to property ladder etc, but at some point, he will. Oscar will benefit more as he is so much younger.
On a similar subject, both my parents have insisted that they won't be living once their quality of life deteriorates in their old age. I know what they mean by this. Has anyone elses parents said similar to them? Or are both mine strange!
My mum is furious at my dad. She hates him more knowing that he has all this money because he screwed her over when they divorced. He got the family home, and me and my mum lived in my nans granny flat, which was as big as a shoe box, there was no bedroom, just a living room with a kitchen and bathroom attached. We lived in that for almost a year, 2 adults and a child!
He never paid her a penny in child maintenance because he moved to Switzerland not long after they separated, and the CSA couldn't chase him. He was supposed to be paying £600 a month, and that was 19 years ago. And not on his even bigger salary that he got from moving to Switzerland.
Whatever. He is the one who has lost out - he lost out on my childhood, and he has lost out on his grandchildren - which most parents can't wait to have. He isn't arsed. He called himself uncle c to DS1 a couple of years ago. Then realised what he had said and corrected himself to grandad c. Idiot. I'm sure he forgets he has a daughter and grandchildren, and that instance just served to demonstrate that!