I said, "You've always mistaken arrogance for confidence."
And he said: "And you've always hidden behind something."
That one went in, because it is the closest thing to accurate that man has ever said to me.
Five years ago we were, briefly, the couple people wrote about.
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.
