It cast me as the wronged man and never once as the fool.

It explained my pain without requiring me to examine my part in it.

And it fed, like fuel poured onto a fire, every insecurity and every jealous suspicion I had carried into that marriage from the beginning — because a man who is certain his money makes him a target finds it very easy to believe that the person closest to him is the thief.

I never investigated a single claim.