My Son Was In That Box

Summary

The day before our wedding, Benjamin looked me in the eye and told me he’d fallen for someone else.

He gave me a choice, as if he were presenting a business merger: we could call it off right now, and he’d handle the humiliating task of apologizing to our families; or, I could go through with it, become Mrs. Benjamin Thorne, and look the other way while he kept his mistress on the side.

We had been childhood sweethearts for twenty years. I told myself it was just a mid-life crisis, a flicker of cold feet before the "forever" started. I chose to stay.