This is for your rest that you so desperately need. When he calls you, can you calmly say, "I do not want to listen to this so I'm hanging up now," and do it? I'm so sorry, but I laughed until I cried when I read what you wrote about "...only he and maybe amoeba don't ..." because that is exactly what I used to call my ex was an amoeba!!! (because he has the brains of one!) Just seeing someone else use that just made me laugh and cry. I wish there was an easy way through this, some magic words or something. I don't have any, unfortunately, except to know that you are the important one, you are the one who is going to come through this for the better. If you really have to deal with him telling you about her and her problems, take a page from football-watching guys: tune him out and say "uh-huh....really?....Oh....hmmmm" at random times. Basically, don't feel like you have to attune your mind to it. You may be there, on the phone, but you don't have to process what he is saying to you. Take care of you!!