Chapter 1:

I move to a small town in MA in 2009; my husband was laid off collecting unemployment and then decided to start collecting social security.

He was an electrical engineer and I am tax accountant. He move to US from Russia over 30 years ago, long before I knew him, and eventually settled down in a small town in MA. When he retired we had one rental home and a small cabin on a small lake. He became depressed, the money was being used for Vodka, and the abuse begins.
So we separate and decide to divorce. I met a friend who worked in one of three small food stores in this town. We talked often and she seemed supportive as a went through the normal ups and downs of divorce.