changing my apple ID and getting a new free apple email account
I have an apple ID which was set up using a btinternet account containing my married name. My marriage has broken down and for a number of reasons I wish to distance myself totally from my former partner, and this includes email addresses.
This would have been relatively easy to do by setting up additional btinternet email address had the account not been in his name (even though payment went from a joint account!): only he can create additional email addresses in that account so I am snookered until I reach the end of the contract in May and can start one in my name.
I thought I had a solution, i.e. to create a free iCloud email account in my new name and auto-forward all emails from the btinternet accounts until I can re-educate all my contacts, and then close them and the contract down and move to a new provider who is a little more customer friendly!
However, I cannot find out how to create a free iCloud email account: it seems that the Apple ID has to be an email address which is NOT an apple domain. Do I really have to set up a free email account with someone like live or gmail in order to change my Apple ID? I really don't want a messy solution with permanent links / forwards etc between different email accounts. I need to end up with a single account to & from which personal emails can be sent, and to which I can have forwarded emails from my business domain account.
Any ideas: preferably in plain English as I am not a techy! Simple instructions like go to xxxxxxx, hit yyyyyyy, then click zzzzzzz etc work for me!
Thanks in advance
Sandi
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)