Because I had already seen the truth.
Two weeks earlier, I’d watched him get into a car with another woman. After that, I stopped reacting and started collecting evidence. With my attorney, I built a record—hidden accounts, disguised transfers, suspicious expenses, and a carefully constructed narrative he thought would never be challenged.
By the time he served those papers, I already had everything secured.
Still, he believed I was cornered.
“You think you’re more capable than you are,” he told me later.