I was married to Mike for seven years. Seven years of shared routines, Sunday coffee, inside jokes—and a quiet trust that I never thought would be shattered.

When my grandmother passed last spring, she left me a modest inheritance—$15,000. I told only Mike, trusting that we were a team. He smiled softly, supportive. Or so I thought.

Three months later, he came home with a face pale as paper. “I crashed my boss’s car,” he said. “He says I owe him $8,000 or I’m fired.”

Of course I offered to help. He was my husband. My partner. I wired the money that night, believing I was keeping our household afloat.