Onwards and upwards!

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Well, just got back. Thanks for the kind words.

Got back to a letter from my solicitor forwarding on a letter from W's solicitor.

Ahh, the fun. Solicitors. They love to threaten people don't they? They think we are all dumb.

W wants half of the house here or a reimbursement of the expenses expended on the house which actually amounts to more than half of the house cost (that's a lie, but let's indulge it). Her solicitor kindly points out, in case I couldn't realise, that half of 35, is 17 and 19 is more than 17.

That saved me getting a calculator out to do that for myself so he is at least saving me time at the cost of my W.

Additionally they point out that the house was in fact purchased as a matrimonial home in 'anticipation of marriage' - I'd love to see him prove 'anticipation' in court That again was good of him to point that out, unfortunately it's wrong. I purchased the house in 2004 and I didn't actually ask my W to marry until 18 months later. I'll maybe ask my solicitor to point that out to him to save him time that he kindly saved me above. If I had 'anticipated' marrying W for 18 months then it would probably have killed me ... which would maybe have saved us all the pain, heartache and anguis, but hindsight is a wonderful thing

He did however drop my W firmly in it by confirming in writing that my W did in fact profit from her previous home. That was good of him and not good for my W. That gives me, what I think they call, 'leverage'. She wasn't supposed to have 'profits'

What I can't really understand though is why W thinks she can continue to be a good person in D's life and give her 'things' and be part of her life when she is effectively splitting her father and her up. She knows the only reason the house was purchased here was as base for me to see D when we came the 300 mile drive up here. I will have to sell the house and leave here. Okay I'm doing that anyway, and D's mum is trying to move to the same area as me (separately - we are NOT together) but she doesn't know that.

My ONLY reasoning on this is that she thinks me and D's mum are together So she can get me out of this house and I can simply move in with D's mum. Sorry, bush telegraph, as is often the case, is actually ... BUZZZZZ ... WRONG ... ! One of the people who works in W's store, just the other day, asked D;s mum if me and her were back together ... it's clearly a rumour

All in all a great weekend. I will update it here later. It's not quite as I expected. Unexpected things happened.

The letter would have brought me down, however .... I just laughed. They can only actually get to you if you care Do your worst W. Believe me it's a drop in the ocean as to what you have done to me so far.

Let the battle commence.