atlantabiolab .... that is one of THE BEST posts on here!!!! HANDS DOWN
Does she deserve to be in the dumpster? Maybe yes, maybe no. That isn't for me to decide. As Jetisin and others pointed out - it takes two, and you seem to be an extremely honest and fair man.
I am speaking from experience. No matter what YOU think, if you REALLY want to make your wife suffer financially, no matter how lovingly you treat the children while they are in your company THE CHILDREN WILL GROW TO HATE AND RESENT YOU FOR MAKING THINGS HARD ON HER... BECAUSE IT MAKES THINGS HARD ON THEM.
I am not saying that she should be allowed to enjoy the same financial freedom that she did when she was "holding her end" of your marriage up. But what I AM saying is that the bigger prick you are to her - the more the children will grow to hate you because YOU ARE BEING A PRICK TO THEIR ONE AND ONLY MOTHER. She may have been a miserable failure as a wife to you, but by your own admission SHE IS AN EXCELLENT MOTHER.
I have bent over backwards to insure that my children are with their father. For me, my divorce was NEVER about money OR the children, but about respect and wanting to be treated the way that I treated my spouse. My girls know this. They have NEVER had to choose because of me