climbing. Michael couldn’t afford much of a down payment. So before the wedding, I bought the condo outright. I never asked him to contribute. I never put his name on the deed. Not because I didn’t trust him.
Because the money had come from my family, the purchase happened before our marriage, and at the time even Michael agreed keeping the paperwork simple made sense. The night I closed on the condo, he had stood in the empty living room staring at the skyline.
Then he said quietly, “People are
