Then I stood up and said, “I’d like you to stay at your parents’ this week.”
He started to say something.
I said, “Please. I’m asking you to do this one thing without an argument.”
He left that evening.
Second, I called the managing partner at my firm.
I told him I was navigating a personal situation and would need slightly adjusted hours for the next 3 weeks.
He said, “Anything you need.”
I had just brought in the largest client in the firm’s history.
He would have said anything I needed.
Third, and this is the part that took the most out of me, not because it was complicated, but because it required me to feel it fully in order to do it correctly.
I called my sister-in-law.
I told her what I’d confirmed, what I was doing, and I thanked her for what she’d said at the wedding.
She was silent for a moment, and then she said, “I want you to know that my husband had no idea about the seating. He found out when you did.”
I said, “I know.”
She said, “His mother is going to lose her mind.”
I said, “I know that, too.”
She laughed.
Just a little.
She said, “Good.”
The divorce proceedings took 7 months.
