My husband and I divorced after 36 years of marriage – At his funeral, his father drank too much and said to me, “You don’t even know what he did for you, do you?”

Our son had sent us some money — a partial repayment of a loan we had given him three years ago. I logged on to transfer it to my savings account, as usual.

The balance almost gave me a heart attack.

The deposit was there, of course. But the account balance was lower than it should have been.

I scrolled down the screen and noticed that several transfers had been made over the past few months.

I noticed that there was money missing from our joint account.

“That’s not possible.”

The knot in my stomach tightened as I checked the numbers again.

There was no mistake. Thousands of dollars were missing.

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