“It’s fake!

It’s one of those AI voice generators, you can make anyone say anything now!

Nora is unhinged!

She’s not well!

She’s suffering from postpartum psychosis, she’s been paranoid and obsessive for weeks, she made this whole thing up!” It was, I have to admit, a clever pivot, in its ugly way.

Because it is exactly the kind of accusation that can stick to a new mother, the suggestion that she is hormonal, irrational, not to be believed.

In another version of this story, one where I had confronted him in private with nothing but my word against his, it might even have worked.