give him $60,000, he created the missing-cash scheme to destroy her credibility.
He apparently believed that once I became convinced she had stolen from him, I would be embarrassed enough to throw her out.
Then I would return to him.
“He really thought I was going to choose him over my own mother,” I said.
Claire nodded.
“Because for seven years, you always put his needs above everyone else’s.”
Her words hurt because they were true.
I had spent seven years mediating his outbursts.
Smoothing over arguments.
Excusing selfish
