My Husband Had Been Secretly Seeing My Best Friend…

been built on a stage set, and someone had just knocked over one of the walls.

And then I began to think.

I gave myself exactly one hour to fall apart.

I sat on the kitchen floor, not dramatically, not sobbing, just sitting, back against the cabinet, knees pulled up.

And I let myself feel the full weight of what I had just found.

12 years.

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