We did not pretend that every person who behaved badly would be convicted or disgraced in a single hearing.

Lauren had no desire to spend her sons’ childhood in endless litigation, and I did not make her refusal into a sign that she was giving up.

Instead I separated myself from the decisions and structures that had enabled the concealment.

I resigned from several family boards and rebuilt my own working life around smaller companies whose accounts I could actually understand.

Priya joined one of the new oversight committees after leaving the old group.