My Husband Had Been Secretly Seeing My Best Friend…

of guilt. But then I had spent 12 years being honest. I was simply adjusting to the new terms.

Patricia was in her early 60s, silver-haired, with reading glasses she pushed up into her hair when she was thinking.

She listened to me for 20 minutes without interrupting.

When I finished, she pushed her glasses back down and looked at me with the calm, unsentimental continue reading …