ExH has recently retired and I had to email him as I had not received my share of the pension check yet. (Especially important since, as you may recall, I am supporting S2 totally on my own without any help from ExH while S2 looks for a new job).

After sending the email twice in the last five days and not hearing from him, I had to send him a text message to look at his email. To his credit he did reply fairly promptly with the figures I asked for; I check his math and of course he got it wrong (in MY favor, actually). However some of the other figures need checking (years of service/years married during years of service don't look quite right to me) so I wrote back asking him for more info and telling him I would redo the calculation once I got the info. I suppose I could have lied by omission and just taken the extra $80 a month but really don't want to have him come back to me for the money at a later date.

His email was polite as was mine back - just wondering if I'll ever get to the point that seeing an email from him in my inbox doesn't give me a pit in my stomach? It's been 11 years! But I still dread opening his emails.