Woke up this morning, noticed the date and thought 'it's (my former boyfriend's) birthday today'. I have not seen him for many years but we were together from university for quite a long time, splitting up some time before I met my now X. And then I thought: 'oo-er, so maybe it's a year since I was divorced?!' In fact the date of the DA is not very meaningful. It was stamped some time around now, but I didn't hear about it for a while, so it was sort of behind the scenes, and by that time in any case it had no real significance. We were divorced in all but name (law) anyway. I

I've been married for 20 years me and me and my partner ( soon to be EX) separated 3 years ago, we did agree to separate but when I left he got his finances in order very quickly. We have 2 kids 21 and 17 years old, my 17 year old has been living with her dad who in Dubai "kids like the good life not poverty". I left my ex in Dubai and I am not sure how to proceed with getting my fair share of everything, I am far from greedy and did not want to take him for everything but after the comment that was said to me by him I want what I am entitled to. Comment was I will give you £20,000 cash and

How stupid was i getting married at 22 to a man who was 17 years older then me looking for someone to be his "mum".....I say mum because i did everything that a mum does cook clean wash his clothes feed him get him out of bed in the morning make sure he had clothes ready to wear etc i could go on lol. The marriage was doomed from the start he was finding urm comfort in someone else bed hardly ever at home i got fed up and one night i sat and told him i wasnt happy any more there was no relationship only a parent type relationship in which he played the role of the child, he cried begging me