“Good. I love you, Mom.”
“I love you too.”
I did not post anything online.
I did not call every relative and friend to explain what had happened.
But I stopped lying for them.
When people asked why Mark and I were separating, I told them the truth.
“Mark had an affair with Daniel’s wife.”
Some people were shocked. Others asked questions I wasn’t ready to answer.
A few suggested that I should forgive him because thirty-one years was a long time to throw away.
I would listen politely, then ask them one question.
“If your husband did this to you, what exactly would you be forgiving?”
Usually, they had no answer.
Jenna lost Daniel and the family she had spent years becoming part of.
Mark lost his marriage and the relationship he had always claimed was the most important thing in his life: his relationship with his son.
The consequences were not the result of a revenge plan.
