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

quite legally and quite accidentally, to hold fifty percent of the thing you value most.”

He looked, at that moment, genuinely ill.

“That ruins me,” he said.

“No,” I replied. “That’s equality.”

There was a long silence. The house was quiet around us — the children asleep, the curtains I had sewn hanging still at the windows, the dining table bearing witness continue reading …