As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
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We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
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Ok, well this summer my ex decided to reopen our divorce decree due to the fact that he qas fired from all his jobs and has refused to work for almost two years. So I haven't been getting anything in child support. I was able to find a great attorney and we are working on changing a few other terms on top of the support.
Well, this past weekend my ex has sent me multiple texts and emails saying he can't pay the most basic court mandated support because his expenses are too high. Well tough!
He finally has a job and is making as much as I do. Mine is split between myself and my children and he has noone. He just filed bankruptcy and has cleared all his debt but child support and student loan and he has a girlfriend who splits the household costs. I have noone to share expenses with!
He is complaining because he said he had to buy a car to go to his job where his brother also works in the same office and who drives by his house every day to get to work. But they can't carpool! Not my problem!!!
He keeps telling me that if I make him pay the mandated support I will be killing him and that he will have to sell his car and quit his job! Ridiculous!
I told him to man up and get a second job! To which he replied that won't work because he won't be able to focus on the one job that is a desk job! Well, I have taken a second job and have thought about trying to juggle a third job to make up for the fact he doesn't care about his kids!
Anyway, I just had to vent! To think that I married this person. THe one good thing and total non-regret are my children! I will fight to make sure that they are taken care of!
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Shame on him! I'm so sorry you have to deal with this. I worked with someone who had his child support taken directly from his paycheck from our employer. I think EVERY child support payer should have the same happen for them. And if they decide to leave the job and collect unemployment, it should be taken from that as well. I have no patience for dead beat Dads.
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That does stink! Poor baby, he can't afford to pay the minimum state mandated child support? And yet - he can TEXT?? Meaning - he has a more than basic phone? He just bought a car? Did he just buy a beater that will get him to and from work for a year or so until he can afford better? I have a feeling no.
Does he realize that in not paying his child support, he is not only taking money (food, housing, clothing, etc.) from his children, but by making it necessary for you to take on a second and maybe third job, he's robbing them of their mother?
My ex left me with two kids in college and waited so he did not have to pay child support. He now lives with a woman, her kids (by at least 2 fathers) and grand kids from her teen daughter. He whines about not having money all the time. I cannot believe I was married to him for over 30 years although I am much happier without him.
I, too, have the most wonderful children for whom I could not be more grateful. Sometimes I think we just have to accept that some people only care about themselves.
Here there is a standing order that child support is to be paid by wage assignment. I think it works best for everyone.
He keeps telling me that if I make him pay the mandated support I will be killing him and that he will have to sell his car and quit his job! Ridiculous!
What I'd say in response to him claiming that? "Buy a bicycle and learn to like Ramen Noodles, if that's what it takes. You fathered children, that's a commitment for AT LEAST eighteen years, if not for life. MAN UP, already."
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I told him to man up and get a second job!
And a third, if need be.
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Anyway, I just had to vent! To think that I married this person.
When you married him you were both kids.
Since then, you've grown up. He, obviously, hasn't. And therein lays the crux of the matter.
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On behalf of my gender: I'm sorry your ex is such a manchild. Emphasis on child.
I went through something similar with my daughters father. At one point he tried to get custody of her just so he wouldn't have to pay child support. Now he has his current and arrears taken out of his paycheck. This same lovely manchild also has not called or seen our daughter since January, the day after her birthday.
That's really terrible. One of the things that annoys me the most is a deadbeat parent - I'm sorry your ex is so terrible. Just know that karma will get him!
Shame on him! I'm so sorry you have to deal with this. I worked with someone who had his child support taken directly from his paycheck from our employer. I think EVERY child support payer should have the same happen for them. And if they decide to leave the job and collect unemployment, it should be taken from that as well. I have no patience for dead beat Dads.
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