My husband stayed all in the divorce… But I had no idea what I was really taking.

My husband stayed all in the divorce… But I had no idea what I was really taking.
My ex’s lawyer leaned over to him and whispered five words to him. Only five.
And Victor’s face—that smug face I saw for fifteen years across our table—went white. His hands trembled. The papers he signed with such emotion vibrated as if they were leaves in a storm.

And I… I smiled. For the first time in three years.
But I’m getting ahead of myself.

Who I am and how it all started
My name is Alejandra Durán, I am 34 years old, and until three months ago I was married to Víctor Medina.
Fifteen years. Longer than the patience of many women lasts.

I met Victor when I was 17. I worked as an archivist in a law firm, earning little, but learning a lot: numbers, details, silence and observation.
At 18 she was already a legal assistant. And at 19 I got married.

At 20 our son, Tomás, was born.

While many people “dreamed”, I saved. My grandmother always repeated the same thing:

“A woman should have her own money. No secret… own.”

How I became “everything” (no salary, no applause)
When Victor’s business began to take off, he asked me to leave the firm to help him “for a while.”

That “a time” became eleven years.