Just Venting…

Posted under Ex's, How I See It

Because let’s face it, this is why we have blogs in the first place…

Once again the ugly head of my past divorce has come to haunt me.  An email (what no phone call?) from my ex has got me really pissed off. 

I’m going to have to go sit in a corner and mutter my mantra: “It could be worse, we could still be married” until I calm down.

 

We divorce about nine years ago and in our divorce decree we agreed that as tax deductions we would swap our daughters (two of them) back and forth.  She would have my oldest on odd years and I would have the youngest.  On even years she would have the youngest and I would take the oldest. 

 

Fair enough.  For 2008 I have the oldest. 

 

A recent email from my ex came to me “asking” if she could use my oldest as a tax deduction this year.  Her reasoning was that she felt she contributed more to her in financial support.  This would give her both kids to write off.

 

I replied that I need to decline her request (yes, I was very cordial).  I said that you may be contributing more to her financial support now; but I have contributed much more in the past and have not made the same request to you.

 

I also explained that my accountant and I discuss the upcoming year and make our decisions based on who and what can be deducted.  If she wanted this to happen, she should have talked to me months ago, not just before she’s seeing her accountant.

 

Her reply was that she was going to do whatever she damn well pleased. 

 

Now she’s really pissed me off. 

 

I told her good luck on getting an accountant to change our divorce agreement.  I also told her that if she wasn’t careful we might both be audited for trying to deduct the same child.  I have an agreement on my side. 

 

Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go sit in the corner for awhile…

 

“It could be worse, we could still be married”