Category: mad as hell
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A divorce update and some bitching
If you are married, live in the North (and I’m referring to the same North that people think of when they think of the Civil War) and are thinking about moving down South, my advice to you is: DON’T. Jabba and I were married in 2000 here in Michigan. We…
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lighting the beacons
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WAR
Wednesday started out like any other day under the current status quo of The New Normal: I got in from work, talked / Facebook Messaged The Auteur, slept a bit, tried to enjoy some daylight. In the evening, I called The Boy. And since the STBX refused to take my…
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secrecy, lies, and the ugly truth
Tonight is the premiere of The Auteur’s film from the Detroit 48 hour film project. Slate, her estranged husband, will be in attendance. I will not be. If I am lucky, I will be working tonight. Last night, she invited me to go get a drink with them after the…
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Love Rears It’s Ugly Head
I get a call from my attorney Thursday afternoon. Not one of the paralegals, mind you, but the actual lawyer. I’ve been calling his office for the last 2 weeks trying to get my summer visitation with The Boy to get put on the proverbial front-burner, since his last day…
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three certainties in life
Ben Franklin once said that the only two certainties in life are death and taxes. On this Tax Day 2013, I would humbly submit a third absolute to be added to this list: getting financially fucked up the ass during divorce proceedings. For the first time since actually leaving South…
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Counterstrike
With the Boy’s Easter break about 6 weeks away, I called the STBX last night to discuss visitation. Here’s a paraphrasing of said conversation – to the best of my memory: Me: So the Boy’s Easter break is coming up. Under the separation agreement that you had written up, I…
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Reflections in the aftermath of the Newton, CT shootings.
I wanted my next few posts to be about non-legal proceeding, non-divorce related, non-sad stuff. I wanted them to be somewhat light-hearted: an analysis of askmen.com 99 women of 2013; a review of “the hobbit” and others, but then a horrific tragedy took place yesterday in a town I had…
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The Bachelorette Party Quandary
At the final bar of the night, I was once again forced to face the bane of the single heterosexual male’s bar/nightclub experience: The Bachelorette Party.
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