Around the end of 2017, my boss’s wife went through a midlife crisis and decided to have an affair and move out of their house. Divorce proceedings were initiated shortly after.

In the following March, there was an incident between the two of them that necessitated court intervention, and that resulted in some requirements they needed to meet. One of those requirements was [Ex-Wife] being required to walk around the house and make a list of all the items that were hers.

Cue pettiness on her part. [Boss]’s lawyer stated, “In my twenty years of law practice, I have never seen a list this petty.” Among the items were:

You get the idea. She made sure she got half of everything.

HOWEVER, [Boss] did not allow [Ex-Wife] to come into the house herself to pack, as she had spent the previous five months stealing out of the house at every opportunity, and he didn’t trust her to pack only her belongings.

So, he made me do it. I’m my boss’s personal assistant, and it’s my job to read his emails. We were a small company, and there was nothing else really for me to be doing, so I dutifully started collating “her” belongings.

This is where even more pettiness comes in.

I did this for the entire list, making sure I was as petty as possible when packing up the house.

The result:

Part #1: Once [Ex-Wife] took all of her stuff, she sent a very long letter via her lawyer stating that what she had received was not what was listed in her belongings. We painstakingly went through the entire list, explaining that she had received exactly what was written on her list, and we couldn’t possibly be at fault, since she “wasn’t specific enough”.

Part 2: Their divorce was finalized at the end of 2019. Occasionally, we will still get the stray email saying we need to return items to her that weren’t provided back in 2018.

It makes my petty heart burn bright, knowing that she tried to be a b*** about taking things, and I turned it back on her and ruined it by being extra petty.

I want to add a few things. I did not behave like this in a vacuum. I did not screw over a kindly woman that I didn’t know. No, I’m not dating or married to my boss. Not every woman in a divorce is the good party, and women can be evil, narcissistic people, just like men. Divorce brings out the worst in people.