Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Mending Fences 101: The letter to the ex

I'm so incredibly nervous right now. The first step in my transition is to get rid of the marriage that locks me in as a female which is something I'd like to remedy as fast as possible, as gay marriage is illegal in my home state and the one whom I'm married to only in words and in tax brackets is also male, funnily enough a now-gay male. Funny side-note: most of the people I've dated have either been straight females or ended up being gay males in the end, which brings me to the conclusion that I'm right.

So, I don't have the guy's number, the number he used to have is now my sister-in-law's number, so I found him on Facebook on a whim. This is funny considering most of our interactions over the last six or seven years have been either over Myspace (I know, that dates me) or through his best friend on Facebook. I'm just glad I was able to find him on Facebook so I could send this to him myself. Even though I'm literally terrified of sending this to him, because I don't know how he's going to react, I know I need to.

Hey,

So it's been a long time since we've actually talked - what is it, six years, almost seven? Something like that. And in those years, everything has changed in so many dramatic ways, except for one important thing: I don't know if we're still married or not. I'm going to assume yes, because I never signed anything and you never sent me anything, nor did I ever have the money to file anything myself yet; it's just safer to assume that. The last time I tried to get this resolved, (*his best friend) said to me that you'd already filed and just needed me to sign something, so I asked him/you to send the papers to (*where I was living at the time) so I could sign them and send them back. Needless to say, I never got the papers and I don't know what's going on, and as of right now I'm confused so I decided to try and find you myself to try and set the story straight. If you just need something signed for this, I'm gonna be in the area next week sometime so if that's the case just keep me informed and we can get this finalized. All I know is that I need this to be resolved as soon as possible; I need this divorce finalized. I'm sure you've moved on in your life, and you don't want a marriage that failed so dismally still holding you back from moving on, right? So why are we dancing around this? Let me know what's going on, I'd appreciate it.

-Joey


I'll keep you updated as to how he responds.

EDIT: I can't describe what I'm feeling right now. All he said was 'Give me a call' and gave me his number. Ironic considering what I just posted about the phone, especially when it comes to him. I'm not calling him right now. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe.

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