Creeva’s World 2.0

I moved back to Ohio in Octo­ber of 2005.   My mother had been going through a hard time.   Between my grandfather’s med­ical issues going on and my mother need­ing help, I thought it was best if I was closer to fam­ily again.   I had been away for over four years and had only vis­ited twice.

My mother was going through a sep­a­ra­tion.   My step-father thought Colum­bus (2.5 hours away dri­ving) had a bet­ter job mar­ket.   My mother didn’t want to leave her house.  Instead of work­ing it out in any sane fash­ion that cou­ples nor­mally do they split up.  Xie and I both believe that he had some­one on the side, or he was hope­ful of some­one on the side.  Either way things imploded in that house, some things I know form my mother, other things I’m sure that I don’t.   Either way that is none of my busi­ness.   I wanted my mother to be happy and move on.

When I first moved back Xie and I were liv­ing with her par­ents.   Not too bad, the only major prob­lem was inter­net.   They lived out in the mid­dle of nowhere and no high speed inter­net was avail­able.  So I did the 40 minute com­mute to my mother’s every day to get online.   After about a month or of this I got a cel­lu­lar modem to help alle­vi­ate the time and cost.

While I was there my mother was liv­ing off the stipend my step-father was pay­ing her.   She had grand plans of liv­ing off child sup­port (like she did with the child sup­port she had received for four kids from my father).  Her youngest daugh­ter (with my father) was drop­ping off of child sup­port soon, so if divorce went for­ward she would be get­ting child sup­port for the two chil­dren she had with my step-father.

My mother wasn’t too bright though.   She talked about how my grand­par­ents were offer­ing to pay off the house if the divorce went through (they denied this when I con­fronted them on it).   Her thought was she would put the house money in the bank and keep pay­ing the mort­gage so she could get the tax deduc­tion.   The only thing was, child sup­port was not tax­able.   She was the one that told me it was non-taxable income.   So in her mind, even though she didn’t have any tax­able income, she would still get a refund.   I couldn’t seem to get it through her head that if you don’t pay taxes you won’t get a refund.   Some things don’t go through to the comatose I guess.

More tomor­row.…

Read Part 1 Here

Read Part 2 Here