I went to surprise my husband at the hospital with his lunch. His colleague looked at me with tears in his eyes and said: “He hasn’t told you anything, has he?”

with is that for eleven months I would have found another woman easier than the truth, because another woman is a thing that happens to marriages and you can be angry about it in public.

 

There is no version of my husband was suspended and worked nights in a warehouse and could not tell me that I get to be angry about in front of anybody.

I only get to be sad about it, and I only get to be sad about it because of the part I did.

That second and a half is the most shameful thing in this account and it is also the truest, and I have since been told by a woman on Wednesdays that almost everybody has it and almost nobody says it.

PART 3

My husband had not worked at that hospital since the March.

Eleven months.

The badge he clipped to his