| Whats the silliest thing you fought over when you split?
Posted: 4/5/2008 8:55:33 PM | Most of these seem so civil compared to what we did and I won't share it all, it's been a nasty two year mess but he took my Tahoe, left the boys and I vehicle-less and I caught her driving around in it  so I had to purchase a car. Then he called and said he would be coming to get this stupid wooden pig he had made in high school...sentimental, he wanted her to have it....now that our 17 year marriage was over.
Wellllllll...that night I decided to invite my friends over for a bon fire and we had us a pig roast The next day I handed him some ashes and told him sorry but we were hungry so we cooked the pig.
My friends and I still laugh every time we think about being at a pig roast where there was no food, just lots of alchohol and firewood, I mean pig.
Yes I know, I'm pretty ashamed, NOT
Robin | |
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| Whats the silliest thing you fought over when you split?
Posted: 4/6/2008 6:02:24 AM | We didn't fight over this but I burst out laughing at my lawyer's office. My ex had a total rust bucket of a "classic" pickup truck (maybe a 1940s model) that I don't think you could bring back with divine intervention. It was stored at his parents place in another state and I had forgotten he even owned it. Well, in the statement of his assets that he wanted to get out of the divorce he listed that thing. I hadn't heard or thought about it for years, and there's no way in HELL I would want it. Told my lawyer through laughter "oh he can have that, no issue with me." Likewise most of his rusty tools and all of his shotgun-shell reloading equipment. Take 'em all!
I'm still smiling now as I think about it. | |
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| Whats the silliest thing you fought over when you split?
Posted: 4/8/2008 5:02:36 PM | I have to agree with Robitty on this one..
Mine was anything but.. civil.. as well. Nothing silly or "petty" about it. He also took the car that was supposedly bought for me (hadn't put it in my name for very good reasons).. wanted to take the brand new tv (yet.. he was supposed to be living in the little league dugout.. and where he was supposed to plug it in there.. who knows?).. but the kids refused to part with it (smart kids).. allllll while I was stuck in a hospital bed that he put me in.. and unable to turn my head from side-to-side.. or move away from his stupidity. Nice guy.. NOT! | |
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| Whats the silliest thing you fought over when you split?
Posted: 4/8/2008 5:20:27 PM | Well, it doesn't feel silly right now, but it will years down the road. The soon to be ex #2 offered to pay for the divorce (we are doing our own w/no lawyers). That was last November.
Still no paperwork filed, so I sent him a nasty email telling him I thought it was rather rude of him, since he had his alcoholic gf living in my house. I also told him to send me the check to file the paperwork myself.
First divorce: fought over the fact that he gave me his sh*tbox car that died a week after the divorce, and him actually coming to see the kids (I wanted him to, he didn't see the need). Thank God we are both adults now | |
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| Whats the silliest thing you fought over when you split?
Posted: 4/8/2008 9:01:56 PM | | well the things that me and my ex fought over was a coffie table.and a family pitchure.and our daughtur.he wanted her to live with him and i wanted her to live with me.i wish i would have let him have her now lol.and our dog.i got all of it though. | |
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| Whats the silliest thing you fought over when you split?
Posted: 4/9/2008 9:34:13 AM | I MADE him take his stuff! I was still living in the house and he had moved to a tiny trailer (his choice)....He was 'forced' to rent a storage unit.
Did try to convince him that the dogs and the kid should be a 'combo' custody....no go on that one....darn, I wanted to have a couple of free weekends to travel w/out getting an animal sitter or asking (begging) a neighbor.
Yep....he, too, ended up with someone that's got him by the 'short ones'! Don't get me wrong, I'm actually kinda grateful to her....now she gets to deal with his anxiety and depression, not moi no more. | |
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| Whats the silliest thing you fought over when you split?
Posted: 4/10/2008 5:37:51 AM | Yep....he, too, ended up with someone that's got him by the 'short ones'! Don't get me wrong, I'm actually kinda grateful to her....now she gets to deal with his anxiety and depression, not moi no more.
This line made me smile. Any time I've tried to explain what was wrong with my marriage to anybody, I end by saying, "Oh well! He's the girlfriend's problem now!" | |
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| Whats the silliest thing you fought over when you split?
Posted: 4/10/2008 6:28:47 AM | My divorce days, so happy they are gone and over.
Beings I started the divorce, he fought me solid over
anything and everything. Including trying to get me
thrown into jail everyday for 3 solid weeks.
Tried to do a do it yourself divorce. But had to eventually
hire a mean nasty lawyer to stop him.
I wanted nothing from him. Just the papers and my personal
things. I was giving everything up. He fought me, because
he just wanted me.
Something I thought would be simple, turned out to be a
major battle, until I hired the best, meanest, nastiest lawyer
in town. That resolved my problem with him. | |
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| Whats the silliest thing you fought over when you split?
Posted: 4/11/2008 7:57:47 PM | I mostly don't fight about stuff, it really isn't worth it. But the "hot buttons" we get over "stuff" is always revealing.
A Tabriz rug. I'd started collecting persian rugs. When we split up, he wanted three of the rugs... MY rugs, and my favourite one. I'd bought them, still had the receipts so at first I argued over it because "it wasn't right" Things were starting to wind up into something nasty, 'til I woke up and realized I could BUY a new (OLD) darned rug rather than pay the legals to prove I had purchased said rugs. So, I told him to just take it and go. HA, after all the fussing, it didn't fit in his new apartment so he wanted to come back and exchange it for a different one. | |
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| Whats the silliest thing you fought over when you split?
Posted: 4/12/2008 7:09:27 AM | | well, it seems silly 2 me but it was a small kitchen knife id had 4 ages n only ever used it 4 peeling potatoes not very well though cos it was blunt lol usually had thicker peelings than the chips lol, still got it now, in the drawer, never use it but ill always keep it lol am i mad or is there others like me | |
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| Whats the silliest thing you fought over when you split?
Posted: 4/12/2008 8:02:47 AM | | I don't know if it's silly or not, but my last long-term GF took one of my CD's. It was a special unique & hard-to-find release [of a flautist] that was more of a sentimental gift given to me by my Aunt. I never did get it back. | |
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| Whats the silliest thing you fought over when you split?
Posted: 4/18/2008 3:40:31 PM | quote] quote] ,,, Back issues of Mother Earth News... Well heck,,, there's a lot of good stuff in them!!!!
Uh ! man ~ you are killing me girl ~ I can just picture that in my mind now, So he just thought he was leaving with em! LOL hehehehehe
For me ~~ I never fought ~ let her have all she wanted ~ but I did do some solitate pouting ~~ over a few things ~ can't remember what they were now ~dar | |
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| Whats the silliest thing you fought over when you split?
Posted: 4/19/2008 4:47:17 AM | | To me it was not silly, I had a collections of small porcelain dolls that went on my Christmas tree. My mother and I had purchased them each year for 20 years. My mother was dying and they were gifts from her. He swears he does not know what happened to the dolls. Funny thing is, his sisters collect dolls. | |
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| Whats the silliest thing you fought over when you split?
Posted: 4/20/2008 2:04:15 PM | The fighting was over by then, her infidelity exposed, I just walked away from it all- house, car, everything. Her life became a living hell as the abusive alcoholic she dumped me to marry slapped her and the kids around; I couldn't do anything about it, of course, because of the restraining order her lawyer insisted she get. He (the drunk) became more abusive as he drank himself into a massive fatal heart attack at the age of 40.
Two decades later, she's a paraplegic, and I'm one of only a half-dozen people who are concerned enough to visit her in the hospital. I'm not bitter, but I haven't forgotten or forgiven, I'm just taking the moral high ground here.
I don't think any of it was silly- stupid, yes, unnecessary, pointless, needlessly painful; I said and did some things I'm not proud of, in my view she did much worse, but there was nothing silly about any of it. | |
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| Whats the silliest thing you fought over when you split?
Posted: 4/22/2008 3:51:02 AM | This one is too close to home.. but what the hey!
OP>>
For me it was splitting up the Tupperware.
My Ex. hated cold dishwater.. eweewwwww!
From some other previous relationship she had she had managed to store an old (dirty) piece of Visonware. Well I rescued it from the pile of things she was going to discard, cleaned it, subsequently used it to preparing many a fine dinner. During the breakup.. she asked for it back.. there was no argument, I just looked down my aquiline nose without saying anything.
"In the words of Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five"
Scorpiooooooo... show no shame... | |
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| Whats the silliest thing you fought over when you split?
Posted: 4/22/2008 12:06:15 PM | Well, we haven't split yet. But just last week I was berated and yelled at in public, because I didn't buy her a camera for her spring break trip last month.
I guess it never occured to her that she could've bought one herself. Likewise it never occurred to her to tell me she wanted a camera before she left. I had no idea, but I got in a lot of trouble for it. | |
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