When Your Partner Becomes Your Opponent

A woman recounts the quiet unraveling of her divorce as it shifts from separation into something colder and more strategic. What begins as routine communication turns into a calculated struggle for control, played out through emails, schedules, forms, and silence. Told entirely in her own voice, this episode traces how power moves through systems, language, and patience—and how surviving it requires learning a new way to exist. There is no dramatic victory here, only endurance, adaptation, and the cost of being known too well by the person now standing across from her.