My Ex Left Me All Of Her Stuff 28 Months Ago. Now She’s Trying To Sue Me Replevin For Not Taking It From New Mexico To California. I Need Advice

Sooo the shortest and easiest way to say this is, I’m a 40 year old guy. I dated a woman for about 7 years. I lived in one she lived in another for the 1st year. Then we both moved to a new state together.

After about 6 months of living together we had a child. After that Child was born we immediately had another one. Boom full blown family????????‍♂️ fast forward a couple of years and we weren’t on the same page. She loses her job and decides to take the kids to visit her parents.

She’s gone for 3 weeks then comes home. Immediately we realize we were both at peace without each other. One morning we’re arguing about finances. Mind you I paid all of the bills, she was unemployed but daily feeding her Amazon addiction shopping for unnecessary stuff like clothes, heels, makeup etc…hoarding around the house just adding to her already $90,000 worth of debt it was ridiculous.

I go to work and she packs up some stuff rents a van and drives the kids to her parents in California 800 miles away from New Mexico.

That was February 2024. When she gets there we decided to try couples counseling. During counseling we realized we’re not right for each other. After that I “locked in” you know gym-work-gym-therapy-church.

After a year I get on tinder and talk to a couple of women. she finds out from and is livid! She puts me on one of those Facebook seeing the same guy groups.

She says we’re still together, her reasoning is that all of her stuff is in my house… it’s not a couple of boxes it’s her life’s worth of over spending.

I ask her to come get it, use a service or a friend, or I’ll take time off and and bring it. She’s adamant about not wanting to see me. So I boxed it up and it sat in my garage. I moved June of 2025 to a neighboring city. I ask her again to retrieve her stuff. She refuses stating I owe it to her to preserve it. I inform her I would put the stuff in Storage she’ll need to pay for it. The storage is $287 a month. That was 10 months and $2,870 ago.

39 days ago I send her a 30 day notice to retrieve her belongings.

She sends me emails stating that she doesn’t consider her stuff abandoned. Today she’s sends me an email stating that if I don’t arrange for her stuff to be returned she will sue for replevin.

She’s now stating that me not taking or mailing off of her stuff to her, is me not allowing her to retrieve it.

Has this ever happened to anyone? Is there an actual possibility that I could be held liable for her stuff?

Ps Location: New Mexico (stuff stored here); California (ex moved to) i still have it in storage but i am closing that account on the 30th.

I need your help Reddit.