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

changed,” he said, looking at me with something I couldn’t entirely read. Not quite respect. Something adjacent to it, with regret underneath.

“No,” I said. “I stopped shrinking.”

I want to tell you about what came after, because the months following the divorce were not a simple restoration. They were a rebuilding, which is a different thing — slower,continue reading …