“I should’ve listened.”
Of course, Dad didn’t answer.
Then I realized I had misunderstood his warning all those years.
He wasn’t right because Mark eventually disappointed me.
Everyone disappoints someone eventually.
He was right about the second part.
Never give away so much of yourself that you can’t stand if someone disappoints you.
For decades, I thought being a good wife meant protecting the marriage.Get Marriage Tips
Keeping the peace.
Holding the family together.
Now I understood something different.
Sometimes protecting yourself means admitting that someone else has already broken what you were trying so hard to save.
Some people later called what Daniel and I did brutal.
We gathered evidence.
Talked to lawyers.
Protected our finances.
Confronted them together.
Stopped covering for them.
Then walked away.
I never thought that was the brutal part.
The brutal part happened before we knew.
It happened when Mark kissed my shoulder after showering another woman’s perfume from his skin.
