MY EX REFUSED TO HELP OUR SICK NEWBORN — “SHE’S YOUR RESPONSIBILITY AND YOUR PROBLEM
“Here’s the rest, Eric, since we’re all awake. I’ve spoken to my attorney. Three things are happening.
One: you’re paying child support for Chloe. Legally, formally, garnished if necessary. My lawyer is already filing. You emptied a joint savings account that was half your wife’s — that’s coming back too, with interest, or we discuss it in front of a judge.
Two: my money stops. Today. The accounts, the allowance, the house, the car — all of it. You’re thirty-two years old. It’s time you found out what your life is actually worth without me underwriting it.
Three: my will. I’ve changed it. Everything I have now goes into a trust — for Chloe. My granddaughter. The baby you called a brat and shut a door on.
She’ll be taken care of for the rest of her life.
And you, Eric, get to spend the rest of yours knowing that the daughter you abandoned inherited everything you assumed was coming to you — because you were too small a man to buy her breathing treatments, and I was ashamed enough of that to make sure the money went to someone who deserved it.
Start packing, son.
The gravy train left with your daughter.”
PART 4
Eric did what men like Eric do when the money moves. He panicked, then he begged, then he got vicious.
He showed up at my apartment two days later — not to see Chloe, of course. To yell.
“You turned my mother against me! You poisoned her! This is manipulation, you did this to get her money—”
