Per the IRS your Ex probably is not properly claiming the EITC (Earned Income Tax Credit). If parents are divorce, the custodial parent may release a claim to exemption for a child but to be able to claim the EITC, the child must have lived with the taxpayer for more than half of the year except for temporary absences.
Click here for the link from the IRS regarding this topic.
Take a moment each and every day to appreciate the beauty that God has put in your life. It can be as little as a butterfly sitting on a leaf to a winter snowfall.
The beauty around you can calm you if given the opportunity. It can also give you time and conversation with your children.
Enjoy the beauty around you….
If you go around being sad all day and feeling sorry for yourself people won’t want to be around you. That certain someone who left you will also believe that they made the right decision.
If you really want to drive that certain someone crazy find your happiness without them. Show them that you are the one who is better off. When you find your happiness you will find the person who loves you the most… Yourself.
In the blink of an eye it will be next year. The time that you miss with your children can never be reclaimed. You can try, but you can never be at that soccer game you missed, you can never redo the birthday party you didn’t show up for. Time is the most precious gift we are given and that we have to give.
Harry Chapin’s song Cats in a Cradel was set to music after his child was born; because that is when he realized how important time was with his child.
Jim Croce’s song Time in a Bottle is all about wishing for more time but there never seems to be enough.
Weight the benefits of where you are putting your time.
The path that you are on today may not be your ultimate destination. If your current path is ending a dysfunctional relationship that doesn’t mean you will be alone for ever. It means that this current path is leading you through the storm towards the sunshine. At the end of this path you will head towards the right into the sunshine.
Remember you must walk this path before you find your sunshine again.
When you talk about your blessings you bring light into your life. When you talk about your problems the lights in your life dim. This goes for your friends also, if you only talk about your problems they will not want to spend as much time with you. Your friends want to see you happy. That doesn’t mean that you never mention the trying times that you are going through, just not every day or minute.
Let your blessings overshadow your problems.
There is a saying – that you can never go home again – which may be true. Think about it, when you go back to visit your parents, it’s the same house, the same neighbor, the same city, the same state. It has the same smells and it feels the same. Yet… it is different. The difference isn’t the home, it is you. You have changed, hopefully you have grown as a person, you have become who you are.
It is the same with relationships. Going back to one that you moved on from will never be the same. You have changed, hopefully you have grown as a person, you have become who you are.
While you are going through trying time you may not be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel. But, if you sit quietly by you will be able to her God’s whisper. The whisper of your future. The future in his timing.
If you are beating yourself up because of a failed relationship you must remember that it takes two people to make a relationship work. If one or the other person doesn’t want to take the time or have the patience for the relationship it will never work; no matter what the other person is willing to do.
If their are children in this relationship take the time and have the patience with your children. Show them that time and patience are important.
Just because you don’t like what is happening in your life, at this moment, doesn’t mean you have a license to create Drama for others. When you create Drama for others you deserve the Karma that comes into your life.