Just a letter to my daughter

 To: Amelia Grace
It's really hard to believe that now it has been fifteen years nearly. And for you these past few years have been nothing but constant uncertainty. So now I hope to redress the balance a little bit. By hopefully telling you that there are some certainties in life that perhaps I should have been better at making you aware of. For instance the fact that I am irrationally proud of your strong individuality, your stubborn determination, (straight from your mother). I envy your many friendships and social life, mainly because it reminds me so much of

This is going to be a long one....

Yesterday I had my First Hearing. The previous week I had decided to self-rep as I believed that my solicitor had not got me anywhere. So last week Ravenclaw re-wrote the statement of issues as we believed the ones that had been prepared by the sol did not allow the Judge to fully understand the issues at hand. I had these filed at the court and sent my stbx sol a copy.

Up to this point my stbx had still not submitted her Form E .

So I turned up to the court with no idea of the other sides financial needs, nor what their statements of issues were. I sat down

After nearly 17 yrs of marraige my husband announced on the Saturday before Christmas that he did not love me anymore. This was a bolt out of the blue. We agreed to keep together until after Christmas for our two daughters sake aged 14 and 11. What really happened was he went off the rails going out drinking and not coming home sneaking back and lying to the kids. We told them the news the day after boxing day they were devastated.

After I reorganised the finances (paying off some debts with savings) he moved out into a rented flat agreeing to pay maintenance to cover outstanding debts and