Thursday, December 9, 2010

Wow. Just... wow

So far, I have discovered the following things that my ex-husband-to-be has lied to me about for the past 6 1/2 years:

Lie #1
He told me that he had made special arrangements to have his $420/month child support deducted from him disability before he receives it.

Truth - He has never willingly paid child support. Only once when he had a regular job and part of 2 settlements he got for getting hurt were any payments ever made. He is almost $44,000 in arrears. The $243/month he gets for disability is ALL they have determined he is entitled to.

Lie #2
He told me he served in the US Army for 6 1/2 years.

Truth - It was 2 1/2 years

Lie #3
He barely made it to the birth of his oldest child, because of military duty, and had to rush into the room, leave his rifle in the corner and barely made it.

Truth - His son was 6 months old when he left for basic training.

Lie #4
He said he'd spent most of his service deployed. To places like Somalia (according to him, he was there when the events Black Hawk Down is based on took place) and Bosnia.

Truth - He was never once deployed, never sent out of the US for any reason.

Lies #5 & 6
His service ended when he had a major parachuting accident, with 2 panels of his chute blowing out and him dropping 50 feet (though he told my parents it was more), compacting his spine, breaking most of his bones, and ruining his shoulder for life.

Truths - His career ended when he conveniently reinjured his shoulder which was weak from an old baseball injury while on the obstacle course shortly before he was supposed to go on a deployment that he told his wife of the time he was going to try to get out of.
His only parachuting accident was twisting his knee from landing on a pile of dirt wrong when he was in basic training.

Lie #7
He was part of the 101st Aireborne

Truth - He was part of the 102nd Quarter Master

Lie #8 - He was a Ranger (aka Long Range Patrol)

Truth - He was a fuel clerk

Lies #9 & 10
He brought his wife to live with him as soon as he could and his son was born in a military hospital.

Truths - He didn't even contact his wife for several months after leaving for basic training (and taking the last $50 she had to her name with him) and his son was born locally

Lie #11
His first marriage ended because she was abusive to him while he was recovering from his "injury"

Truth - His first marriage ended because he was cheating on her with the woman who would become his second (ex)wife

2 comments:

Kristin @ Going Country said...

Wow indeed. Good luck with all of this . . .

Just Me said...

Thanks Kristin