swmbo is currently asleep in the chair, last half hour or so i was on ebay looking at Land Rovers, Miss Vamps kept calling out the prices......
so swmbo turns round and say we have no room, we can not afford etc......
Now if I were single and rented a small flat then I could buy this and run that etc......

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Be flippin' careful what you wish for Mike!
There's many a true word said in jest, & if your swmbo gets to see that....

As long as I continue to 'provide' for her children, well one in particular, I am safe, be quite clear I may not have been jesting, if there are no changes very soon, only difference is I will want a 2 bed flat for Miss Vamps...... :-/ :-/ :-/
Oh dear! Sorry to hear it Mike....nuff said! 
What do I do? Master Vamps has just come in, he is not the problem child, I reminded him about what he owes, i also reminded him that he must pay his board, firs and foremost....swmbo does a huff....
His father is mega loaded we are skint but manage...and then we have 'problem child' 20 years old....
Their dad earns megabucks as a director of SCS but now pays nothing towards his kids and cars and driving lessons and insurance etc....

To be honest I have been well and truly screwed...

I'm afraid you're in a 'no win' situation there Mike? I believe the saying is 'between a rock & a hard place' mate! 
If there were no Miss Vamps I do not think we would still be together, to be honest....love has it's limits and we have challenged most of them.......

Not necessarily vampster, love & like? two entirely different things. Testing limits is probably a good thing, you most likely know & understand each other better than any other person on the planet? You can love & not be "in love" but saying that, you were at some point so this can return

You can very much dislike your situation even swmbo but I'd bet you still love her? i.e. some one on the street has a go at mrs vamps, you'll wanna kill 'em right... why? 'cos thats love (or at least one manifestation of it). Battles, stresses, kids growing up, divided loyalties, resentment, absent parents that don't contribute, financial troubles etc.. It's never gonna be easy but love does prevail, always. That said, it needs fuel, could be a weekend break away from the kids, 1 night a week out for a meal, I don't have the answers but there will be a reason that you both fell for each other and you need to somehow get it back. There's days when I p*ss swmbo off so much, she won't even look at me, but I know she still loves me (angry love

)... Might sound like I'm being an armchair psychologist but I'm not... swmbo & I have been together over 17years 24/7 (I'm only just turned 40) and at times we've been through hell, literally, but I'll love her 'til the day I die... even if, God forbid, she ever kicks me out

maybe difficult to believe, but I attract a lot of unwanted female attention (in the real world, never on OOF

) & swmbo just has one rule... I play away and it's over! I agree with this 100% and never would anyway.
When things are make or break, choices have to be made, don't choose the latter 'cos you'll regret it somewhere down the line
