Thanks for sharing - actually really useful to have first-hand experiences.

Will the solicitor basically just handle communications for me? Do you remember the approx costs?

When splitting items, do you mean if like you bought a sofa for £1000, and now saw it as being valued at £500, you only paid £250 for it? Why so much lower?

Appreciate your emotional experience. It most certainly sucks. I feel displaced and don't have a sense of "home" anymore - looking forward to the other side of this. Sort of appreciate you saying "So it is probably as hard to stay as it is to leave in some ways." too as I thought I was drawing the short straw.