Spouse demanding rope.

[Weary]

Two pieces of advice:  Save the marriage if you can.  This sounds like a stagnant relationship in need of some adrenaline.  If your marriage is indeed over, take her proposal.  You don't want to risk court because you can and probably will end up doing worse.  Judges aren't very predictable.

[g_t]

true but you need to be making some serious schedule a deductions to get over the standard deduction.  More every year it seems