In late February, the ex and I sold our old house. Due to many factors including a glut in the market, him not keeping up on the house as I would have liked (he lived there for over a year before it sold) and it just not being a super-fab house, we got screwed on the deal. We each had to pay about $1,900. It sucked. Thank God I had access to a bit o’ cash, but that pretty much wiped me out.

Last week, he received a check for about $700, our mortgage-insurance refund from Uncle Sam. I called our mortgage company a few weeks ago, and thought that we had some other $$ coming, but the whole process was so confusing — and the realtor was telling me no, the $700 was it — that I thought, oh well, the money was gone anyway.

Lo and behold, I received a check for just over $1,000 today! It’s made out to both of us, of course, but for a split second I wondered if I could keep it all for myself! Isn’t that awful???? But even before I realized, duh, I would either need to (a) obtain or (b) forge his signature to deposit the check, I knew that I couldn’t keep all of the money. Damn my conscience lol. I left him a VM on his office line to ask him to call me tomorrow to set up a time where we can meet up for him to sign the check. I am SO glad I thought before I spoke because this is what I almost said in telling him in the message about the check:

WTF??? The words entered my mind in a teasing, taunting sort of way, like I have big news, tell me you love me before I’ll tell you what I have to say — but oh my God, I haven’t said those words to him in over 18 months! WTF??????

∗ Posted by Monique on 03.24.2006
∗ The Ex