My wife left me abruptly over a phone call and is telling people it’s because she felt “unsafe” and I had “abusive tendencies.” I’m guessing she’s doing this to help her guilt about leaving or control a narrative. These accusations are 100% untrue, no police or medical records, no evidence at all.

I don’t have kids so it doesn’t impact custody at all. The people in my life who actually matter to me and know my character don’t believe her. I already sold our house and went no contact except for lawyers, so a TRO is unlikely. I did lose some friends I made through her, but I’m just chalking it up to just cost of business for a divorce. I’ve been very calm to her throughout this process and even paid for her legal fees out of my retainer to get things moving quicker.

The settlement process is starting to wrap up and I’m hoping to be divorced by end of month and never see her again. I think all possible damage is done, but just want to know how you went about reducing blowback and risk from bullshit like this if it happened to you?