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I betrayed my wife with the woman who nursed her through chemotherapy. Not during—that’s what I tell myself, and technically it’s true, which makes it worth absolutely nothing. It happened …

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I betrayed my wife with someone she introduced me to. Her friend from the choir. My wife brought her home for dinner in 2016 because she thought we’d get along, …

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I betrayed my wife for eleven years, and the feeling I can describe most clearly now is annoyance that it ended. Not relief. Not guilt. Annoyance—the same petty irritation I …

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I betrayed my wife and then let her believe she’d imagined it. It happened over six weeks in 2013, when she asked me three separate times whether something was wrong. …

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I betrayed my wife with her brother’s wife, and the two families still holiday together. It ended nine years ago. Every Thanksgiving, every Fourth of July, the four of us …

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I betrayed my wife two weeks before our wedding and went through with it anyway. Twenty-nine years ago, I stood in a church in front of 140 people and said …

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I betrayed my wife financially before I ever betrayed her in any other way, and the money is what she would have forgiven. It was sixty thousand dollars in 2010, …

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I betrayed my wife with someone twenty-two years younger, and the humiliating part is that she was kind about it. Not my wife—the other woman. She was thirty-one, and she …

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I betrayed my wife and told my daughter before I told her. She was twenty-six, and I needed somebody on my side before the ground moved beneath me. So I …

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I have thought, more than once, that I could have been a great man if I’d married somebody harder. That’s the sentence that has been sitting underneath thirty-one years of …

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