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When I was six months pregnant, I called out his childhood sweetheart. I told him she was perfectly capable of supporting herself, yet she shamelessly leeched off men. In response, Matthew Quinn tossed my bags out the door. "Since you claim a woman is perfectly capable," he sneered, "and can support herself without a man's help... then prove it." Sometime later, with bloodshot eyes, he confronted me. "You're perfectly capable. Why are you relying on a man?" I just rolled my eyes. "What's wrong with relying on my own husband?" Much later, he would stand at my front gate every single day, forced to catch glimpses of our daughter through the iron bars.