Tag
I write candidly about my husband’s infidelity in part because I wasn’t the first to do so. The story of his long-ago-over affair with a…
Continue Reading
A flash of horror at my husband’s admission of an affair. An inability to believe he’d betrayed me or to understand how he could’ve…
Continue Reading
I drove up to work, my eyes puffy from sleeplessness and sobs. I’d left our four-month-old with my aunt and driven to the school where I…
Continue Reading
I’m certain, if the choice had been mine, I would not have spoken candidly to a group of my dear and trusted friends about my husband’s…
Continue Reading
As I am sitting alone in an open front hospital gown, I bow my head for a quick prayer of courage. A simple, polite knock letting me know she is on…
Continue Reading
You have a secret you don’t want to tell anyone, right? Yeah, I know, because I have one too. More than one. The reason we don’t serve up…
Continue Reading
We sat at the dusty, worn picnic table while our two daughters, who were six and eight at the time, swam at the crowded wave pool nearby. It was…
Continue Reading
When our marriage came close to ending, the whole of it seemed to flash before our eyes, like you hear about when people have a near death experience…
Continue Reading
I sat on the hard concrete, Bible sitting closed in front of me. We had been instructed to go outside and find a place of solitude, to “listen…
Continue Reading
My friend, Tracy, and I sat in the bleachers and watched my brand-spankin’-new husband play intramural basketball. He was in his last year of…
Continue Reading