She rubbed her wedding ring.

“Would it hurt to say you appreciate what he did?”

“I can appreciate the financial correction without pretending the way he left was right.”

“I know.”

I set down my pencil.

“I don’t want to spend the rest of my life finding ways to make him feel what I felt.

I also don’t want to write a kinder letter than I mean.”

She looked at me for a moment.