Not because I wanted to hurt him.
It was because I didn’t need his regrets to feel whole.
Later, I wrote to him simply:
“I hope you learn from what happened. For the sake of the girls.”
And I hung up the phone.
Emma pulled my hand, and Lily started laughing, trying to run after her sister.
I followed them on the sand, with the wind in my hair and sun on my face.
Ryan had once told me that he could not remain faithful because he was young and attractive and because this was the nature of men.
I have learned that fidelity is not about age or beauty.
It is mattering, the choices and the respect for the man you promised to be by his side.
And when the promises are broken, the betrayed is not obliged to sacrifice his dignity in order to save appearances.
The day I arrived at the port with my two little girls, I wanted to give my husband the most beautiful surprise of his life.
