Chapter 8 — The Water Test

It was all tied up carefully — in diversified funds, some commercial real estate, and an irrevocable trust he had set up years before he ever met my mother.

And there was a premarital agreement, signed by them both, keeping everything each of them brought into the marriage entirely separate.

“Why didn’t you ever tell her?” I asked.

“Because of something I noticed, right after we married,” he said.

“When they believed I had money, everyone was attentive.