Maybe I should have titled this "Precautionary Tale"
In 2016 I helped move a great woman I had known for a year (inclusive of a 2 month visit) from Maine to CA. I agreed the house needed maintenance (paint, cleaning, some other things).
I am disabled, autoimmune disorders. Means, among other things, that I can usually do three to fours heavy work a day. I can push and do more, but the cost ramps up quickly, in t5he form of mind numbing fatigue, poor coordination, etc. Which this woman knew. She was disabled, spinal damage from an industrial accident.
She pushed and pushed to get the house done, and projects completed, using the threat of her doing things herself, and further damaging her back, as emotional blackmail to keep me pushing well past what I should be doing. And then she said that every 3 months I would do something stupid to make her fight with me and break up. This caught my attention, and next it happened, I ran a test, and it was her. So, in Oct, I let her break up with me.
And then things got nasty, and things started coming out of the woodwork. Like her plan to marry and divorce me, to take my house. We never made it to marriage, so hat fizzled. And her plan to take me for palimony fizzled on the requirement for a seven year relationship.
But I am still dealing with the Sheriff's Dept. on charges she made against me to them. The good point there, is that they have decided that she is a nut case on their own, and that she forgot to tell them that she is associated with the group Anonymous Hackers. Also, they are actively investigating whether it was her, making phone calls to family members of a friend, claiming to be a detective, and trying to get information on me. Their opinion is that it likely was her, but they are investigating.
And to think, I took out a loan, and sold a number of rifles to help her move out here. And now, she is hiding, so I am having difficulty finding her, so that I can serve small court paperwork on her, for the things she took out of the house when she moved out.
But she was out of the house mid December, so I at least got to put up a tree and decorations for a few weeks. And I had family over for Christmas day, for a meal. Unfortunately, my son and his family were all ill.
Here is to hoping 2018 gets better than it has started out!