The Last of Him Is Finally Gone

My garage was the last of his domain.

In the summer of 2010, my boyfriend moved into my house. I had owned it for three years before he came to live there. I bought my house as an emotional decision following my divorce from my first husband.

It was a horrible financial decision, buying this house. The market had hit a peak but was on the verge of collapse. By mid-2010, we were in a full real estate collapse.

My boyfriend and I were getting serious and having two homes made no sense. This is how a multitude of bad decisions happen.

We let his condo go. He packed up everything and it went in the garage. Then we sorted it out. Well, we sorted some of it out. The rest got shoved all over the garage.

Things we once thought we were certain we needed got pushed aside to collect dust. Pretty much how our marriage ended up.

Within eight years, he moved in, we got engaged, got married, got divorced and he moved back to Iowa. The garage was always a bone of contention. All I wanted him to do was clean…