“They also don’t turn every room into something you can assign without discussing it.”

Mark held the page by a folded corner.

“I didn’t expect the name on the record to be the part that mattered.”

“It mattered because you were treating the arrangement as yours to make.

It doesn’t answer everything about a marriage.”

Claire did not need to claim that the deed abolished Mark’s position in their shared home.

She needed him to recognize that his position did not make hers disappear.

“You knew the title was in my name,” she said.