You said he WAS a selfish asshole!!
he
was being a selfish asshole. Not necessarily in the way his ex meant it, but he was. Nothing wrong in being selfish. Sometimes we do have to look out for our own interests and not allow others to take unfair advantage of us, ...but he
was thinking about himself, and because his primary focus (at first) was the $50 that his ex
does rightfully owe him, instead of putting his daughter's dilemma first, ...he was thinking out of his anatomy.
I can understand if the ex is a _itch, ...but the way I was looking at it, ...the ex is petty & irrelevant.
The important subject and focus should have been on his daughter. I think when the daughter is made the focus and the 1
st priority, ...then everything else become clear, and the petty stuff won't irritate as much. But he
did remove his head from his anatomy, and did the right thing by his daughter. He came to his senses afterall.
By focussing on the ex's irresponsibility and tendency to lay everything at his feet, ...everything becomes a point of stress & aggravation. He should just take a deep breath, consider it the price to be paid for reproducing with such a creature, and mark his calendar and start counting down the days, being grateful, that he only has less than 5 more years of this, ...and she can be out of his hair forever.