[DrewDevil]

I was only married to my first wife for 2 1/2 years, but in that short time, she instigated some pretty amazing stuff.

She didn't like my mom for some psycho reason and would hover over me pacing whenever I talked on the phone with my mom. One time, it was the day after we had gone to a friend's wedding and my mom was asking who was there, did we have a nice time, did I see so-and-so, etc. After I hung up my wife screamed at me for revealing the private details of our life to my mom and told me it was none of my mom's business what we were doing, who we saw, etc.

While we were married, my brother was in college, and when he would come to town we would try to go to lunch together. When my wife found out I had paid for my brother's lunch, she went freaking ballistic. "We don't support your brother!" "Why aren't your parents paying for your brother's food!" etc., etc. At the time, my wife and I were both practicing law and our take-home pay was more than $9,000 per month. That was when I asked her if she was really, truly insane.

But then she found out that I had dated one of my best girl/friends for a couple of months in high school (some 15 years before my wife and I ever met). We had dated for a couple of months, fooled around a little (never had sex), agreed we were better off as friends, stopped dating, and remained friends ever since. My friend had since married someone else and had 2 kids. When my wife found out we had dated in h.s., she told me I was to sever all contact with my friend and never talk to her or be in the same room with her again, because she didn't want me thinking about those times I used to fool around with her. I told her that I think about them anyway, whether I see her or not. Then my wife told me I needed to "get myself a new wife."

So I did.