Well, I guess I’m officially a single lady. There’s no guessing to it, actually. It’s official official.
We’d been told the divorce would be final faster than this, so I decided to phone the attorney — who you’ll remember as Lawyer Near Me, a man straight out of a Grisham novel — and leave a message to see what was up. Year ends make tidier big transitions, for things like tax and health care reasons (being a grown-up is SO FUN, Y’ALL…. I mean, it is, except for things like taxes and health care reasons!). Anyway, after I left an email and a message, I received a somewhat frazzled call from Lawyer Near Me…
He’d been traveling in Europe and while he thought the second part of our divorce agreement filing had been made it…well…
Hadn’t.
He had done it before calling me and copied both me and C on the email. He wondered if I still wanted him to work on the last of the remaining paperwork for once it became final… He clearly expected an explosion on my part. I’m sure he gets that a lot. I was just like, “Welp, glad I checked in. You made the filing now? Great, do the rest, I don’t want to have to find another lawyer.”
Not to mention, any other lawyer would be further away, by definition, because he isn’t just the Lawyer Near Me, he is, in fact, the Lawyer Nearest Me too! I figured we were looking at a week or two after this, but instead…
Cut to the next night. I was finishing up reading the latest Shala + LWR Unbound Book Club pick (Michael Singer’s The Untethered Soul) before our meeting that night, when I got a message from him. “Congratulations, your divorce is final!”
I didn’t even know how to feel, which is exactly what I said to the people I texted and notified. I hadn’t even told my mom about the delay yet, because I figured there was time.
What do you do when you don’t know how you feel and your divorce just became final?
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