“And I’m going to let them fall.” I want to be clear that I did not decide, in that kitchen, to hurt my family.

I decided to stop paying for them, and to stop being liable for a crime committed in my name, and everything that followed came from those two lawful decisions and from the choices they had already made.

I was not going to push anyone off a cliff.

I was simply going to stop being the ground they stood on.

There is a distinction here that took me a long time to be able to hold, and I hold it firmly now.

What I did was not revenge.