I Reached My Hotel and Saw My Husband with Another Woman – I Almost Collapsed When I Heard the Truth

I believed we were unshakable.

When the kids left for college and didn’t move back home, the house felt enormous. Or maybe we just felt smaller inside it.

One evening last fall, after dinner, I asked him, “Do you ever wonder what’s next?”

“Next?” he asked, glancing up from the paper.

“Retirement. Just… us.”

He leaned back. “I thought this was the goal. Quiet. Rest.”

“It was,” I said — though something restless stirred inside me.

He reached for my hand. “We’re good, Mare. We always have been.”

And I believed him.