Protected ourselves.
Confronted them together.
Stopped covering for them.
Then walked away.
I don’t think any of that was brutal.
The brutal part happened before we knew.
It happened when Mark kissed me goodnight after leaving a hotel with Jenna.
It happened when Jenna stood beside Daniel at an altar while already hiding something that could destroy him.
All we did afterward was stop carrying the cost of their choices for them. And for the first time in thirty-one years, I think my father would have approved.
Do you think Carol and Daniel handled the discovery the right way by gathering evidence first, or would you have confronted them immediately?
