I believed stepping back was temporary.
Slowly, Gavin began calling himself the founder.
Then he called himself the sole founder.
Eventually, he began telling interviewers he had built everything with nothing but determination.
At first, I stayed silent because I did not want to embarrass him.
Later, I stayed silent because correcting him would have revealed how far apart we had already grown.
But when he told our sons that I had never contributed anything, my silence ended.