After Ten Years of Marriage I Asked for a Fair Split Because It Still Matters

confidence of someone who has never questioned his own arithmetic, as not contributing.

I thought about all of this. Then I took action.

“Okay,” I said.

He blinked. He had been prepared for tears, for argument, for the performance of injury. My composure had unsettled him the night of his announcement, and it unsettled him again now.

“Okay?”

“Let’s divide continue reading …