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"Can I tell you how tired I am of constantly juggling bills? Summer is here, and with it comes the doubling of my child care costs, and somehow I have to try to save some money to be able to take the kids to the beach or camping for at least a few days of my week-long vacation period in August.  On top of that, I have a washer on the fritz, a car that needs brakes, and I suspect my hot water heater is leaking. I also have a ton of work that needs to be done around the house and I don&amp;#039;t have the money or the skilled know-how to do a lot of it. It&amp;#039;s frustrating in the extreme. And with all this weighing on me, I&amp;#039;m shuffling bills around and figuring out who I can put off to pay something more pressing since I&amp;#039;m running very tight on funds right now. It&amp;#039;s stressful, and irritating and putting a real cloud over what should be a nice start to summer. And just when I start whining to myself about how hard this all is without Peter&amp;#039;s income around, I remind myself that we were always stressed about money, even when we had a lot more of it. Peter stressed about money constantly, even when things were going fine. That made me stress, of course, and it was always a hot-button issue with us.  So now I&amp;#039;m all alone, and money&amp;#039;s still a stressor, but not nearly the point of contention it used to be, not without him around to contend with. Instead, I get to figure it out, reason it through, shuffle around (if I have to) and somehow, I always find a way. Do you find financial stress easier or harder to deal with since your divorce? For me, it&amp;#039;s a mixed blessing - I have more to stress over, but not as much stress without the ex to stress me. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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