For anybody still following my story, a sort of finale.
Out of the blue, XH rang and told S15 he was coming over to speak to him in 2 mins time.
He arrived and shut himself in a back room with S15 and told him that he was getting married to OW.
I sort of knew that this was coming... two weeks ago we got repeated calls from FedEX saying that XH's parcel from USA was waiting to have customs duty paid on it before they could send it on.
Fed EX guy reported that it was "diamonds for XH name'.
Why on earth they had our home phone number after he hasn't lived here for 3 years, instead of XH's mobile, I don't know.
But anyway...
S15 was pretty much destroyed by the news and told XH that he hated him.
XH got on his high horse and yelled at S15 for 'abusing him'. Tried to drag me into it to chastise S. I didn't know about H's news at the time. He chose not to mention it to me at all. And why should he I suppose.. I am nothing to him.
Anyway, XH left after 5 min in a huff and soon after S15 rang him to ask : "How can you spend so much money on diamonds for OW when you won't give D18 and I enough money to live on?"
XH refused to speak to S15 saying he was out to lunch at a restaurant with important visitors from overseas.
S15 was beyond angry, shaking and crying and continued to call. XH turned off his phone.
S15 texted him that he was coming to the restaurant (close to our home ) to speak to him.
XH must have sh-t himself, as when S got through to him on the phone about 10 mins later, he had left the restaurant and was driving somewhere.
S15 put his question again - How come you can afford diamonds when you keep telling us you have no money to give us? And how come you can be out to lunch at that pricey restaurant when you say you have no money?"
XH: "I have made a choice. I chose to give diamonds to the woman I love".
S15: "Why would you chose to spend money on her over me and D18?"
XH: Why do you think?"
S15: "Because she is rich and you are going to do to her the same as what you did to my mother".
XH then told S15 he had walked away from the marriage to me "with nothing", having left me with "Millions of dollars of assets including 2 cars".
(Change 'assets' to 'debts' and '2' to '0', and you'll have a clear idea of what I was actually left with)
As S15 gulped out, incredulous " Are you insane?"
The answer is, quite obviously, Yes. Completely.
So, a farcical ending to what has been, literally, an unbelievable life experience.
