The Neglected Wife's Maine Escape

n the call came: my be

umed me, my husband, M

is "friend" Tiffany-a woman whose endl

usted, he casually asked me to cook chicken sou

ust a wife or a grieving daughter; I was

began to app

, openly supported by Mark, who cla

rewell party, while Mark made endl

her over my profound pain, was the final, cold confirmation

d he be

ne else's petty crises while

h of my despair, or the silen

al cruelty bec

rning what was lost, I met

creetly tucking them beneath

unknowingly sealing his own fate as he ru

s Maine, towards my father's dream, a