Hanging On (Saying ILY Pt. 2)

[mtb1981]

Well... She texted back at 4:30 and said she would meet us at the restaraunt. Next thing you know, she's pulling in the driveway at 5:00. Said she "had some stuff to do" and wouldn't be able to make it to dinner with I us, and asked if she could come by tomorrrow to pick up the kids and take them out for dinner. I told her that was fine. She spent about 10 minutes talking to the kids, and I went outside. She came out and asked if she could join me while she smoked a cigarette. I said sure. She said she wanted to grab a few pairs of pants from the house because the ones she had didn't fit anymore. She was being really pleasant again, but that was about to change...

It didn't take long, and she asked me for the $2000 again. I flat out told her no. She claimed she talked to a lawyer earlier in the day and they told her she was entitled to half of the tax money, and she was being nice only asking for $2000. That if she wanted to, she could take half of everything. I informed her that also included half of out debt too. $15000 in credit card bills, and another $10,000 we owed to my parents from a loan they gave us for the down payment on our house. She said she understood that, but wanted the $2000 now because she needed it to buy things for her new place. I again told her no...

I fibbed a little and told her that the money was all gone. That I had given it all to my parents to pay off some of our debt. That there was none left and to quit asking for it. At that moment, my mom pulled in to drop a birthday present for S3. W went and asked her if I had given them the money to pay off the debt, and my mom told her I did. She tried telling my mom that half of that money was hers, and my mom explained that she still owed them money, so it really didn't matter. This made W mad, so she said she was leaving...

I asked her if she still wanted some of her clothes, and she said yes, so I opened the garage door so she could grab the clothes I had already packed into garbage bags for her after the police incident on Friday. This made her even more angry, but I just kept my cool. She marched into the house and to the bedroom, looked in the closet, and realized that I had packed up all of her stuff. Even more angry now. She grabbed a box and strated putting small random decporations and other miscellaneous personal items that I had not packed. I just stood there and watched her to make sure she didn't take anything she wasn't supposed to. This made her even more angry."Are you just gonna stand there and stare at me the whole time?".... Yes...

Afetr she filled the box, she went back outside and started putting the bags from the garage in the van. She told me to leave the door unlocked tomorrow so her and her friends could come by and grab the rest of her stuff (A shelf and deep freezer that her mom had baught us). I told her no. I didn't want her and her friends wandering around my house while I wasn't there. She said fine, that she would just bust a window and break in because the cops said there was nothing I could do if she did. She then asked for the title to the van which is in my name only. I told her no. That I would give it to her after she got the rest of her stuuf out while I was there sometime if my windows were still intact. I was then called every name in the book. I just smiled and nodded. When she was done ranting, I told her to give me a call nect time she wanted to stop by and grab her stuff. She got in the van, told me to eff off, and peeled out of the driveway. Ain't life grand?...