well...my 'ex' & I had a pretty civilized 'parting', but 14 years later, my mother died, and when my brother & I tried to sell her house, we discovered there was a lien against it because my ex-wife had abandoned a car we had bought together. She never paid any taxes on it....so I was stuck with several hundred $$$ due on a car I had not seen since 1977, and which had not been running since 1980..*sigh*...she also, during the first year I was gone, gave away a file cabinet that had been mine, and tossed out the contents...including all my old papers and childhood relics. I started to ask why she hadn't just called my mother and asked if she'd keep them till I came after them.....but I decided that if she couldn't see why that would have been good to do, it was no use discussing it...

My ex had her virtues, but she also had her own interesting sense of 'right'....