Jana Kramer and her ex-husband Mike Caussin are getting actual about baby assist prices.
“That’s a scorching button for us,” Caussin, 37, mentioned throughout the Tuesday, November 12, episode of Kramer’s “Whine Down” podcast. “We all know that. You hate it [and] I hate it.”
Kramer, 40, and Caussin had been married from 2015 to 2021, splitting for good after the previous soccer participant had been untrue. They now coparent daughter Jolie, 8, and son Jace, 5. Of their divorce decree, Kramer obtained main custody of the youngsters and was additionally ordered to pay Caussin $3,200 every month for baby assist.
“That is the one factor we actually, actually battle about,” Kramer added on her podcast.
Caussin concurred, calling the arguments the “final remaining resentment” from the divorce.
“Jana hasn’t made up that I take pleasure in receiving that, particularly with cash being a factor in our marriage and our historical past and all this type of stuff,” he mentioned. “You at all times form of introduced that up. The very last thing I would like is so that you can assume that I would like that from you. So, discovering my means post-divorce [and] discovering my profession the place I can present and do all of that stuff has taken a while.”
Caussin not too long ago began his personal enterprise, understanding that monetary success doesn’t occur right away. As soon as he reaches that time, Caussin now not needs to depend on Kramer’s funds.
“I’ve my purpose [that] by a sure time, I’m going to point out up and have a paper from my lawyer signing over, like, ‘Hey, this isn’t your authorized obligation anymore,’” Caussin insisted to Kramer. “That’ll be probably the most liberating second for me, like, ever within the historical past of Mike and Jana. So, no a part of me enjoys [receiving the funds] in any respect. I hate it.”
After Kramer questioned why Caussin hated receiving the month-to-month sum, he attributed it to Kramer’s perceptions.
“I understand how a lot weight you’ve gotten with it, like, the way it impacts you and that you just maintain it towards me,” Caussin mentioned. “It creates this narrative that simply isn’t correct in my thoughts and it’s simply the final remaining factor from something conflicting between us that also lingers from our previous. I would like to have the ability to relinquish each of us … from that.”
Caussin additionally doesn’t need the monetary burden to have an effect on his coparenting relationship with Kramer and her new husband, Allan Russell. (Kramer and the Scottish soccer coach, 43, bought married in July months after welcoming their son, Roman.)
“You each have a couple of ways in which you justify it, and it’ll at all times trigger some type of battle,” Russell mentioned on the Tuesday podcast episode. “Finance is without doubt one of the largest issues. One pays [and] one receives. There’ll at all times be resentment and battle although, it’s simply the way you handle it with one another.”
Kramer and Caussin additional agreed that they “don’t need” to have any underlying resentment.
“I’ve this pipe dream,” Kramer mentioned. “I’m like, ‘Nicely, how do I imagine that he says in what number of years or no matter it will really occur?’ Then there’ll at all times be this factor and I don’t need there to be. I wish to be, like, free from all of it.”