She said, "You could just pick up the dog poop without me asking. You see it just like I do."

One year ago, my wife (we are legally married for about a month or so more) filed for divorce because she was unhappy. For some reason, she latched onto the idea that divorcing me was the only solution to her unhappiness.

I agreed to move out of our house in January. I consented to her buying me out of the house on an extremely reasonable timeline.

Last weekend, during a conversation about the kids and our schedules, she told me she was overwhelmed (to be fair, this is true). She did not have time to do many of the household chores and tasks, particularly the ones I once did. I listened, responding with a meaningless "Okay" rather than a pointed "Not my problem anymore".

She then specifically complained about the dog poop littering the entire front yard of the house.

Backstory - When we got the dog, I agreed that that dog was my responsibility, from walking to booking a kennel during vacations to visiting the veterinarian. Accordingly, every day at about 7:00 am, I took a leisurely stroll around the yard and picked up the one or two new piles of dog poop that appeared during the previous 24 hours. The yard was poop-free; everyone was happy concerning this isolated issue (remember, she was so unhappy elsewhere that divorce was her "only option").

However, since I moved out of the house into a situation where the dog could not live with me, I no longer strolled around the house where I no longer lived, picking up the one or two new piles of dog poop each morning. Since January, the dog poop has not been regularly picked up. Now, the yard is a literal minefield with piles of poop pockmarking the once uniformly green grass with yellow blotches. Plus, the kids and their friends have stepped in the poop; not an ideal situation.

Returning to last weekend, she laments, "You could just pick up the dog poop without me asking. You see it just like I do." After all, she thought, we agreed that the dog was my responsibility. But, she conveniently did not recognize that this agreement was three years before she filed for divorce.

I stood there flabbergasted while she moved on to other aspects of her life that were not to her liking related to the house, the kids, etc.

She expected me to pick up the dog poop after she filed for divorce, blew up our family, destroyed me, pressured me to move out of the house, angrily demanded that I never set foot into the house again, bought me out of the house, and refers to the house as "my house" not "the house" with the clear purpose of noting that we no longer jointly own the house.

Through feats of mental gymnastics, cognitive dissonance, and confirmation bias, she had pieced together strings of faulty logic supporting her position while ignoring how we arrived in this situation to conclude that I remained responsible for picking up the piles of dog poop around the yard. Amazing.

So, for all those wondering, does she expect me to continue doing the chores and errands you did give that she is my wife and I am her husband before she filed for divorce: yes, she does. And she will be upset and confused about why you are not.