Lots of you have been through DS1's trials and tribulations with me - his stroke while living in Japan, having to come back to live with us, his wife scarpering back to Japan rather than try to live here with him, as was the plan before his stroke. Some of you were even kind enough to have bought his book!
I did some shopping for him today and took it round to find him really down. He and his ex-wife had a nice friendship based on their shared past and shared interests so had been skyping once a week since he went into his own flat. He had always told her that he expected her to meet someone else and that he would be happy for her.
Lately, she has been out, can't afford the broadband connection, fallen out with her family and moved out of the family home and been unavailable on skype. I'm sure you can imagine what is happening - she has remarried and is expecting a baby in three months. But didn't have the decency to tell him
If it wasn't such a long flight, I could cheerfully wring her neck.