Well, I can't be quite so positive, although I don't think her problem was her fault, and I think she's finally overcome it after ten years of being single and two failed marriages.

She was a compulsive saver, and took absolute control over every penny I earned, except for $20 a week and whatever I could hide. After we split up, she kept collecting more than half my paycheck - but only for about three years. She also weaseled her way into getting the grandfather clock we bought in Germany and that I had cared for over 20 years, and she never winds it. And on top of all that, she treated me with undeserved suspicion for twenty years. She was sure I was having affairs behind her back.

But she left me my government pension, which is why I can afford to be retired now. So it's not all bad.

And now she's remarried and seems to be happy, and that's nice.

-Joe Offer-