equity...

if you ever go through a divorce, know that it's going to get messy. no matter how amicable you intend for it to be, it just doesn't work that way. especially when you've married a soul vaccuum who thinks the world owes him something.

so in the little letter that i found in my house when SOMEONE had taken the day (while i was at work) to empty out our home and bank accounts, among other things, was the line "i just want compensation". now how i missed this the first 18 or so times i read it was beyond me. must have been in shock. but he wasn't kidding. all that matters to this man is money, and his own self-gratification.

when it came down to it, the ex's demands included me selling the house and giving him half the equity. never-you-mind this is where our children had lived their entire lives, nor that the credit card debt he ran up in our name would eventually force me to file bankruptcy (and file him as a debtor:) so that i couldn't get a home loan...he wanted compensation for a sixteen year relationship.

lesson one, dear reader...be savvy. becasue i truly had no choice, i sold the house.

to my father.

for a dollar.