They Thought My Beach House Was Foreclosed—I Let Them Believe It

didn’t know the consulting paid $240,000 a year. They didn’t know about the long-term contract that gave me both income and freedom. They didn’t want to know.

The ghost ledger reached fifty-two line items before I stopped. I’d cataloged enough.

In therapy sessions over the past year, my psychologist had explained the sunk cost fallacy with an analogy continue reading …