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Old 12-17-2008, 09:16 AM
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Originally Posted by outonalimb View Post

My best advice...give your ex a 'drop dead date'. Tell him he needs to make other arrangements and tell him also that if he doesn't, that you will drop him off at the nearest homeless shelter. I did this...and when the day came and he still claimed not to have a place to go, I told him that I would drop him off at the center and suddenly, miraculously, he found a place to go...but none ot his happened until he saw that I was dead serious about it.
I really like the genuineness of a not too distant drop dead date. No ultimatums. No hostilities. No BS.
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