My Ex Tried to Buy Our Daughter’s Love During the Custody Battle – He Smiled Until She Reached into Her Pocket

One night, we were eating spaghetti at our wobbly kitchen table.

“Mom?” she said, not looking up.

“Dad says life is easier when you don’t stress about money.”

I felt that in my stomach.

“Well,” I said, “money does make some things easier, but—”

“He says if I lived with him, I’d have my own room and my own bathroom,” she said, cutting me off. “He said I could put a TV on the wall and pick my own bed.

And that they’d hire someone to decorate it for me.”

I looked around our place.

Two bedrooms. One shared bathroom. Peeling paint.

No decorating “plan,” just whatever I could afford from thrift stores and Facebook Marketplace.

“Oh,” I said.

She twisted her fork in her pasta.

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