“You just spent forty minutes asking me for another chance, and you had this in your bag the whole time.”

“I just wanted to have options.”

“Yes,” I said.

“That’s the thing you’ve been doing since February.”

Deborah rejected it in a two-line letter.

The house had been bought in 2016, in both names, with both incomes.

California is a community property state and there was nothing to argue about, which did not stop him arguing about it for five months.

We sold it in the autumn.