I did not confront him.

People find this the most interesting thing about the whole story, and there have been two versions of the reason offered by other people — that I am cold, and that I am a strategist — and neither is right.

The reason is this: I sat in that kitchen at seven in the morning in February and understood, completely and all at once, that I was going to get divorced, and that the divorce was going to be about four hundred and ten thousand dollars of my parents’ house.

Because I knew what Christopher would say.