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You go girl !

I need another man like a fish needs a bicycle.

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I earned my nest egg putting up with 'stuff' nobody else would had took and I'll be ********** if anybody is coming along and taking my kit. LOL

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@SharkE wrote:

Like Phil says "would you rather be happy, alone or miserable with a man"?

 

Decision, is yours.  My sister in law remarried not quite a yr. after her husband died and all she could do is sit around and whine "I don't want to be alone" boo hoo, boo hoo.

 

Well, she remarried and he's tighter then a tick she's still having to work at almost 75 and he makes her pay most of the household accounts and pay for the groceries all out of her babysitting money and her own SS because you see he wouldn't let her draw off of his which would had given triple benefit monthly. So now, she's getting a lousy 450 a month SS and babysitting and paying the bills.

 

Yep, I'd rather been alone and living in a Gov. apt that's subsidized or in my child's basement. Her daughter would had let her stay with them for free all she would had had to do is tidy up the house and help her working daughter, but, no she wanted a man and she got a lou lou.


Your SIL doesn't need his permission to get the higher benefit.  She should contact SS to see if she qualifies for the higher benefit.

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yeah, we all told her that, but, she's scared of him and he had told her not to draw off of him because he was stupid enough to think that his first wife and the 2nd wife would lessen his own benefit. 

 

They wasn't up on the facts. I am. LOL

 

(she had to call from the place where she babysits)

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even when he dies I think she wouldn't try to get her benefits upped due to being a widow. She's just beat down.

 

already told mine I will be. LOL

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If as a woman you decided that $450 bucks a mo and a subsidized apt was your lot in life, why not take steps to better yourself instead of settling for those circumstances?

 

I read so many, many posts who ask about what a poster can get from an ex spouse after years of marriage...why not create a financial plan instead of your man plan?

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She's 75 yrs. old.

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One of my friends got duped on a Gay dating site. It was crystal clear to outsiders but  my friend just wanted a relationship so badly he was blinded.  Eventually he saw the light...quite a few dollars late.

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@tansy wrote:

@SharkE wrote:

Like Phil says "would you rather be happy, alone or miserable with a man"?

 

Decision, is yours.  My sister in law remarried not quite a yr. after her husband died and all she could do is sit around and whine "I don't want to be alone" boo hoo, boo hoo.

 

Well, she remarried and he's tighter then a tick she's still having to work at almost 75 and he makes her pay most of the household accounts and pay for the groceries all out of her babysitting money and her own SS because you see he wouldn't let her draw off of his which would had given triple benefit monthly. So now, she's getting a lousy 450 a month SS and babysitting and paying the bills.

 

Yep, I'd rather been alone and living in a Gov. apt that's subsidized or in my child's basement. Her daughter would had let her stay with them for free all she would had had to do is tidy up the house and help her working daughter, but, no she wanted a man and she got a lou lou.


Your SIL doesn't need his permission to get the higher benefit.  She should contact SS to see if she qualifies for the higher benefit.


 

I have a long time for S.S. How does one get a higher amount of SS, if the other spouse is not deceased or divorced (drawing from ex husband)?  

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by the way the house they both live in he had put in his sons name she'll be lucky if her clothes and belongings aren't thrown out on the stoop by the time she gets home from his funeral.