Originally Posted by letiole
Marathon Man: Assuming this is a divorce and knowing that the ex has already expressed a deep interest in the miles and that the break up appears to not be a real harmonious one, I would think the ex would be very vigilant about checking on these miles in the future. What is it they say about a woman scorned?

Indeed, and I know I would sure get basted if it happened to me! My wife does not roll over and play dead, that's fer sure!
But this aint about me...
the X in question is in fact someone who really shouldn’t even exist. She is evil incarnate and she even knows it. She married the "George" in my initial divorce scenario because, at that time in his life, he had just come back from a war zone, was depressed, and living in a former soviet block country working there all off hours. She was, as he claims, the only person who understood him and he let things go further than they should have. They had a kid, decided to get married, and then, when George started to come back to the smiley old self he always had been in life, she still was the dark, Goth, depressed and cynical THING of a woman that later deteriorated into something evil incarnate. She would do what she could to try to wreck his life and all he did was try to work things out. The kid suffered thru much of this but eventually they went to court to get divorced. Russian law is archaic but they did come to an agreement to share visits, etc. She used her green card status to get to this country and now travels with the likes of a diplomat who abuses his power and certainly wrecked his friendship with George by screwing the then wife, now X! Now the kid lives here with George but eh still has to pay her $$$ and rolls his eyes whenever the subject of THE THING comes up!
You know that Russian theater hostage thing a couple years ago in Moscow? There are some who know George who constantly say thing like, I really wish if anyone we knew had to die in there, it would be her.
But she lives on, appearing once and a while mocking life and using her almost well crafted position to exploit the system more than you and I could ever find any cool loophole in some miles gig! She got the green card, got the alimony, got someone to take care of the kid, travels the world, and has no job or responsibilities! She knows not of miles, trust me. But oh, in the dying years of their relationship, he did fly with her to family or islands in hopes to do what normal men might do to attempt to fix, rebuild, help and just plain love her. They got miles and all, but man, does he still feel the pain of this or what!
He is a good man. You know, some of them are!
I say he deserves ever last mile he can scam from those old accounts he set up and if that's the only technically wrong thing he ever does, then who the heck cares! Based on the above, I bet the karma people would even agree!
nuf said. Ya'll know my stance on this one.

MM