It's starting to upset me a little, because I get the distinct impression that he's going to want to throw away another large sum of cash we can't afford on a lawyer who's just going to take him for a ride again. One example is that we both need new cars. We have two that are paid off, and I can make mine work for probably another few years, but his is going to die any day now. Everytime we talk about a vehicle, he insists it has to be a "family" vehicle which is his way of saying SUV, van, mini-van, or extended cab/king cab truck. Whatever, he's going to be driving it, he can get whatever he wants. My dream car is a convertable Chrysler Sebring 2008 or newer body style; it seats 4. Anytime I say anything about it, he says something about how I'm leaving out his son already. I don't say it to DH, but well, duh! SS isn't here, and unless DH manages to crap out another raise soon so that we can afford to take the Plague back to court, SS never will be here. Oh, and DH would also have to grow a brain, a spine, and some balls. Why in the world would I plan our life together around a figure that, so far as I can tell, exists only in thought and mythology?