ML, How did you feel about S going to have tea w/X and OW?
You didn't mention.
You say not your problem but I catch some sense of you, like me, hoping that perhaps at some point X will wake up? I sense something that we have in common is that X's have not expressed regret or looked back; this makes closure difficult because we do wonder what on earth happened...and your situation struck me as particularly painful because he also rejected your S for such a long time.
Clothes--sounds like guilt to me.
But you are doing well to stay out of it and hope that S is able to have a better R w/X.
M: 16 years Bomb 4/07 OW 20s long gone Divorced 11/09 I remarried New Guy Cooperative r w/X regarding D