Ok, need some advice... here's the first financial sticky point in our separation...

So, the ultimate plan is for her to buy me out of our real estate investment business. The issue is, the business isn't cash flowing to the point that this is possible right now. So our deal was that we'd lease our home (technically hers, but where we've lived all our relationship), and I'd live in one of our rental properties, one in which a tenant is living on a month to month lease, until the business can do so, hopefully within the year. At which point, I will build my own place.

Well, the tenant doesn't want to move. Nevermind that my W was supposed to talk to her about this a month ago so she could be prepared by the beginning of October, and is only just now bringing it up. She's a nice young woman, but on the day she signed the lease, my W was already deep enough in her emotional affair that she knew she had plans to leave me - once again, plans made that she didn't discuss with me.

So, she sent me a text tonight saying that the tenant will "let me know her decision" tomorrow, I guess leaving the decision in the tenant's hands.

I can't deny there's a certain hurt about the fact that she seems to care more for this tenant's well-being than mine, but I know... MLC. She doesn't care about me.

I have a say in how we manage our properties, and I could insist we evict, but I'd prefer not to. My inclination at this point is to be firm in this way: "Fine, but then the company buys me out, now. Or you do, personally."

Which she could. But it would be a hardship.

I don't want to be an ass, but all of this is because of her. All of it. The consequences should be hers to bear, right? I refuse to find a place and pay rent until I can build my own place when we have our own properties (my share is minority, but not insignificant). I agreed to be patient under certain conditions, and now she wants to change them.

I don't know... feeling a bit like I want to do and say all the wrong things tonight, but I'm refraining from saying anything. Any thoughts? I'd appreciate some feedback, thanks...


Me: 46 Her: 41
M: 5.5 yrs / S: 20, 18
3/26 W and I meet OW
BD: 5/2/2015, she takes off ring
W goes to stay with OW 6/26
NC: 9/5 Both moved out: 10/16
I take off my ring and feel... healed: 10/19