“I figured if I could just get the title put in my name, I could take out a second mortgage and pay off the business debt,” Brandon said.

“I talked myself into believing you didn’t need a six-bedroom house all to yourself.

I talked myself into thinking I was only taking what would be mine someday anyway.”

“You demanded fifteen hundred dollars a month from me while I sat by myself in the guest room,” I said.

“I needed monthly rental income on the corporate ledger to satisfy the loan officer at the bank,” Brandon said.

“I invented legal excuses.