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

I had not yet understood.

“Don’t be nervous,” I said. “This is just reading. You already know how to do this.”

I turned the page and showed her where to begin.

There was no moment of triumph in any of this. No clean redemption, no scene in which the scales visibly balanced and justice announced itself. Life does not usually organize itself that way, and continue reading …