You don’t deserve your daughter dude. You’re too selfish it ensure her a stable future money or no money. Plus you want to hurt your ex wife even more? Unless she doesn’t want custody, you should finally take the high road and wallow in self pity of the situation you insinuated, unless there’s more information that you haven’t shared that proves your wife deserved this.

I’m kinda in a similar situation where i find myself falling in love with my really close friend and I’m what passes for an adult. Good on ya for trying, i don’t think have the guts to try anything with my situation because i don’t want to lose an otherwise really great friend by being what i consider selfish.