When I asked him to help me rehang it after we painted the living room, he said, “Can’t we just get a new one from Target?”
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So when the divorce started, I assumed the mirror would be the easiest part.
It wasn’t.
First, he argued that it belonged with the house. That it was a “fixture,” like a light switch.
“It’s on a nail,” I said, in mediation. “It’s hanging on a nail.”
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“It’s been on that wall for eight years,” Brian said. “It’s part of the house.”
Then, when that didn’t work, he claimed it had been a marital gift. That my grandmother had given it to both of us, as a couple, after we got married.
“She died three years before we got married,” I said.
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“Your father gave it to us,” Brian said. “After the wedding. As a gift.”
