Gmail- can I reroute emails from a particular person or email address? ExHs emails are ruining my day.

[IAmBreathing]

In a nutshell H and I are getting divorced. He has been nasty and the whole thing has been a horrible shock for me. I need to carry on working, parenting and living but I feel like I am very close to breaking down. I know I have to deal with it but I'm trying to manage things whilst preserving my mental health as best I can.

Every email he sends throws me into a spin. Sometimes that creates a panic attack which has been embarrassing and debilitating. I'm having some counselling and GP is aware but there's no magic wand unfortunately.

He's not been sufficiently nasty for me to refuse to communicate via email. It feels necessary to sort some practical stuff and to manage the divorce. To be fair although the nasty emails are the worst, even the businesslike ones are a trigger.

He has refused mediation so we are using solicitors but I have very limited funds so can't use solicitor for everything so I really do need to continue to receive and respond to his emails unfortunately.

I need to regularly access my emails for a few reasons, particularly work. I can't create a new email address for those purposes.

I know I could give him a new email address but I worry that he would ignore it, or forget, or that it will make things more complex as my solicitor, his solicitor and H all have my usual email address on file. I also have that Email address when I completed the official divorce application online.

Is there any way of rerouting his emails somehow? I'm thinking that I could then check them as and when I'm ready rather than being confronted by them when I'm not prepared and when a panic attack would be a major issue.

Could you mark him as spam and have them rerouted automatically to your spam folder?

Can you mark them as spam, then they'll go into your spam box and you can search them as and when?
Or set a 'rule' that that always go into a particular folder in your inbox. I do that on outlook, not sure if it's possible on Gmail?

No need to do that.

Go onto YouTube and search redirect mail Gmail. There will be a step by step guide to putting specific emails into a separate folder.

Easily - google how to set up filters in Gmail.
You can just shove all of his emails in a folder that you check when you wish.

Use a particular message to create a filter

1. Open Gmail.
2. Tick the box next to the email you want.
3. Click More.
4. Click Filter messages like these.
5. Enter your filter criteria. (a label named arsehole or the bin perhaps)
6. Click Create filter.

2 options:

Create a rule that moves his emails into a different folder that you then look at once or twice a week.
OR
Create a new email address for everything else and leave this old one for him then just check it when you need to.