Your rich father has always pulled the strings in your life.

When we stand in front of a family court judge, we’ll see who actually has the time to be a real parent.

I never took the bait.

Not once.

Every time he baited me toward a fight, I answered with something reasonable, and documented, and impossible to characterize as vindictive — because I understood that he was trying to provoke exactly the unhinged, obstructive behavior he was accusing me of, so that he could point at it.

Every time he requested time with Theo, I granted it, in precise and reasonable terms. Saturday, ten to five. Tuesday afternoon pickup from kindergarten. If you want to take him to the park Sunday morning, that’s fine.