I received a thank-you card for a wedding I never attended, addressed to both my husband and me. At first, I thought it was a harmless mistake. Then the bride showed me a photograph, and I realized a complete stranger had been living my life for one evening.
My husband and I had been married 16 years when a thank-you card arrived for a wedding I had never attended.
At first, I thought it was a harmless mistake.
By the end of that week, I was questioning almost everything Mark had ever told me about how he saw our life together.
I’m Rebecca, 39, and Mark is 41.
We have two children, Oliver, 14, and Sophie, 11.
We live in a three-bedroom house that always seems to need another repair.
I work part-time as a teaching assistant at an elementary school.
Mark supervises a sales team at a building supply company.
We aren’t wealthy, but I thought we were happy.
Before the children were born, I worked in marketing.
I loved the job.
When Oliver arrived, the hours and childcare costs became difficult, so Mark and I agreed I’d stay home for a while.
A while became several years.
When Sophie started school, I took the teaching assistant job because the schedule worked for our family.
Mark used to say he appreciated everything I did.
I believed him.
Three weeks before the card arrived, Mark told me he was going fishing with college friends for the weekend.
“Ethan’s coming,” he said over dinner. “You remember Ethan?”
“The friend you reconnected with?”
“Yeah. It’ll be good to get away.”
Ethan had been Mark’s roommate in college.
They’d lost touch before our wedding and started talking again about two years earlier.
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