And having priced him accurately, she went and acquired the only asset she believed would hold him, and she acquired it in Tucson, three hundred miles away, from his cousin, with his company’s money, and she never told him.

I do not forgive her.

I want to be clear that nothing in this section is forgiveness.

But I have never been able to read that sentence and feel superior, because the woman who wrote it had watched, from a very close distance, exactly what my marriage did to a woman who could not deliver — and she had drawn the only rational conclusion available from the evidence in front of her.

The evidence in front of her was me.