My Husband Left Our Family Vacation to Spend Three Days With the Guys—When He Finally Called, He Was Begging Me to Forgive Him

of sad.”

“What’s the opposite of sad?” Darlene asked close by.

I thought about it.

“It’s ‘happy.’ But I’m just ‘here,’” I said. “I feel here.”

They didn’t understand but smiled, and that was enough.

“Mommy, are you sad?”

Day two, I rented paddleboards for my two oldest. I watched them wobble and laugh and fall in, and I laughed too, loudly, from my belly,continue reading …