They Secretly Booked A $42K Event Behind My Back — Until I Made One Calm Call That Shut It Down

an architecture that required one of its members to accept diminishment as a condition of peace, and that condition was no longer acceptable to me and was, apparently, not something he was prepared to renegotiate.

We filed for separation. Then, six months later, divorce. The lawyers called it amicable, which was accurate in the specific sense that we continue reading …