Which Title To Claim?

My husband left me a few months ago, and won’t be coming back.

So now I’m at a point where I need to renew or obtain some documents (driving license for example), and I get the ‘title’ question.

Although the legal response is Mrs, I’m not a Mrs any more, and don’t particularly want to be identified as such.

But I’m also no longer a Miss, haven’t been for a long long time.

Men can be a Mr all their lives, no-one has to know whether that means single, married or whatever, and the form Ms is the closest a woman can get to the same.

But Ms has never appealed to me (no offence to any Ms’s reading this).  I’ve researched the origins (this is a good explanation for anyone interested), I see the point, and yes, it fits the need I have, but I just don’t like it.

So, I’ve come to the conclusion that I’d rather be title free … but I’m not allowed to be.

Why not?