I am feeling extremely defeated...and I want to bake cookies and candy and eat to oblivion. But so far I haven't. I did go outside and lay in the sun and cried for awhile. I called a real estate attorney to see about a consult so I can decide what to do on the house and his secretary told me he charges $350 an hour. Good grief. So far I have the initial money that I paid to the paralegals (because he supposedly wasn't going to contest it) and that was $900. Then I did a consult with one attorney and that was another $350. Then retained this joke of an attorney (another $2,500) and now I'm going to have to pay for ANOTHER consult. This is so discouraging. I just want it to be over. And at this point I'm so emotionally exhausted that when the secretary told me the amount I started crying. I tried to hide it so hopefully it didn't show. But it's just freaking highway robbery. And I'm not doing well with staying home all day...day after day. I NEED to be around people. Between the kids being home for the summer and STBX only taking them 11 hours a week...sigh. I think those of you on the East Coast can hear my bag of chocolate chips calling! :-|