The timeline included my work history, childcare responsibilities, transfers to Grant’s company, and the years we occupied the trust-owned house.

I hadn’t expected the exercise to feel so personal.

Each date held a memory: Brielle’s first steps, Parker’s birth, the year my father was hospitalized, the month Grant said I was too emotional to manage financial decisions.

There were good holidays too, Sunday drives, photographs of us laughing in the snow.

David said the goal was not to reduce the marriage to a ledger.

The documents simply allowed us to negotiate from a shared factual foundation rather than from whichever person spoke most confidently.