I am seriously looking into leaving my husband. This has been a long time coming and I have really tried with our relationship over the past 10 years but I found out 8 months ago that he cheated on me and hid it for 5-6 months. I've tried desperately to get over it as I want to keep our family together but I just can't keep going anymore. I'm not happy and I feel extremely insecure and broken. We have three children together and I am a SAHM with no income so I'm very scared about how I will support my children. Are there any other mums out there who have been in a similar situation that can tell me how much money I will get as a single mother excluding child support? I'm so scared but can't keep living like this anymore, I'm heartbroken because I love my husband with all of my being but this betrayal has finally broken me.
Scared of leaving my husband and being able to financially support my children
Scared of leaving my husband and being able to financially support my children
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Use the estimator on the centrelink website to work out how much you will get 😊 So many mums survive on it, it would have to be enough as long you are not going to be paying a ridiculous amount of bills. Good luck, a lower income is better than living with a cheater.
Hey mumma, if the kids are under 8 you'll receive $460 one week and $760 the next (approx) if his income is around $70,000 pa you'll probably receive around $150 pw child support.
I don't know but if my husband cheated on me once on a drunken stupid night I'd forgive it but if it was a drawn out love affair I don't think I could.
What a bloody shitty mess of a situation 😢
It is hard to forgive because it was with someone I was becoming good friends with. She has a family also with three children and did this to me who was meant to be her friend. They had been talking a bit through fb msg and I told my husband I was uncomfortable with them talking as personally I wouldn't do that so they exchanged snapchat names and hid their talking from me and then they started sending naked photos. My husband had dinner at their house one night while I was away with our children and they messed around while her husband and children were asleep in the house! It's absolutely disgusting and so disrespectful. I only found out as she told her husband and things blew up.
Really low
Youll make it work. You cant make a relationship work just for financial reasons. Thata why youll be much happier, even if youre broker. I think youll get at least $1500 a fortnight, its a decent amount
I've been a sole parent on benefits. I wasn't rich, we had what we needed though. I'd rather have to budget and have my confidence and hold my head high.
Oh yuk what a disgusting stab in the heart.. uhh please leave he is horrible