“Yes,” I replied. Missing someone doesn’t mean you made the wrong choice.
He admitted that sometimes he missed Jenna too and that she felt like a fool for trusting her.
“Trusting someone is not a cause for shame,” I said. What that person does with your trust is their responsibility.
Later, I returned to my father's grave with flowers. I sat on the same bench where I showed the video to Daniel.
“I should have listened to you,” I whispered.
For years I had misinterpreted my father’s warning: never deliver so much of yourself that you can’t stand it when someone disappoints you.
I had thought that being a good wife meant protecting my marriage at any cost. Now I understood that sometimes protecting yourself means accepting that someone else has already destroyed your marriage.
Some people rated our actions as ruthless. We gather trials, we protect ourselves, we face the truth and we leave.
