Five years after the divorce, my ex-husband chose the seat next to mine in first class — there were four empty ones

He founded Aldritch Systems in 2014. I joined in 2016 and married him the same year, which two separate people warned me about and which I did not listen to.

I am the person who built the core of what that company sells. Not “helped with.” Built. My name is on four of the six patents and his is on none of them and he has never once pretended otherwise, and I will give him that for as long as I live.

And then in the February of 2021 he read my phone and decided I had been sleeping with somebody, and eleven weeks later we were divorced.

About two hours into that flight he said: “You vanished afterwards.”

“I moved on.”

“You didn’t take a dollar.”

“I didn’t want your money.”

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