Making a deal so I can keep the house

I would not make him give up most of his rights, in fact I’d prefer 50/50 for the kids but (just based on his behavior over the last 4 years) don’t see him willing to change or give up his job in order to have more custody of the kids. Right now he can’t even make the time to call them let alone care for them. I have no money because his job literally prevents me from working more than I currently am, and every penny I make goes towards preschool. If we sell the house there are no rentals either of us would be able to get; we live in a rural community and houses are hard to come by, let alone apartments. The word “apartment” doesn’t even exist here. We would both have to move towns and could end up very far apart from each other, making it even harder to have 50/50 custody. I don’t think my husband will be able to buy me out of the house either and he hates living here, he wants to move 3 hours away back towards his family, so again I doubt he’d choose to keep the house for himself but maybe he would make a different choice in the moment.

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