And in this Corner....

A few minutes ago Marilyn was on the phone with Jimmy, her ex-husband, fighting (still - after 3 years) about money and the percentage of his pension she gets - or something like that. She suddenly tells him she will call him back - then she says hello again.... this time to JoeJack.... and not the usual sickly sweet "hi, honey"... trouble in paradise again? She tells him that she's fighting with Jimmy about money.

Apparently JoeJack is on one of his "contractor" (handyman) jobs, because she says, "but I didn't know she was going to stay and help you." Then she says something about being paranoid. I can hear her fighting tears when they hang up.

She comes back to me and says she doesn't know why Jimmy is not signing the papers and that she's telling him if he doesn't sign by Wednesday they are going back to court. She says he doesn't complain about the money he gives her every month - so it can't be the money. She wonders if it's cutting that last tie to her.

Of course, she thinks it has to do with still wanting her. She wouldn't think anything else even if he wrote across the sky that it's the money.