My Husband Said He Was Taking Everything in the Divorce So I Signed and Let Him Think He Won

“I’m handling it,” I said.

“That doesn’t sound like fighting.”

“No,” I said. “It doesn’t.”

She did not push further. But I could see in her face the thing that was harder to carry than Scott’s anger or his confidence or any of his well-drafted paperwork: the possibility that I had given up, that the woman she was watching move calmly through a dismantled continue reading …