Of course the ex-wife hates the new wife.
She’s jealous.
She’s bitter.
She hasn’t moved on.
So, I did what I thought was best for my daughter.
I smiled when I needed to smile, answered politely when Janice spoke to me, and avoided every argument that did not absolutely need to happen.
My marriage to Gavin had ended almost three years earlier without an affair, an ugly courtroom battle, or a dramatic betrayal.
We had simply stopped being good together.