My Husband Came Home at 10 A.M. After Spending the Night Away—For the First Time in 23 Years, I Didn’t Ask Where He’d Been. By Monday, He Realized He Had Lost More Than His Wife’s Trust.

tell her?”

I waited.

He listened to Mark’s response.

“No. I can’t keep doing this.”

A longer pause.

“I know what I said. But I didn’t think it would go this far.”

He ended the call a few minutes later.

I remained in the kitchen, staring at the window.

What did he mean?

What hadn’t he thought would go this far?

I could have walked outside and demanded an explanation.

I could have called Mark myself.

Instead, I decided that I would no longer build my life around overheard fragments