Infidelity: coming out about cheating

I was surprised the question came so bluntly, particularly since it was a stranger asking.

Did infidelity play a part in your marriage?

I was even more surprised by my quick, definitive response, but maybe that was easier because it was a stranger asking.

Yes. 

I’ve written extensively about my marriage in its happy days. And then I wrote about the slow avalanche of problems that finally gave way, the mountain of my marriage collapsingaround me while I carried a toddler and laundry basket full of clothes and books and toys and fled to my parents’ house. I’ve written much, much more about the divorce that took 16 agonizing months and the years of dating and finding love and being a stressed but blissful single mom since then. I’ve told the story in many ways, many times, and to many people.

I have been asked some very intimate details. And I have been asked this question, the one about cheating, by people close to me, by men on a first date, by readers and by people I don’t know at all. I am not a stranger to responding to the accusation of infidelity. It’s just that I have not publicly written about it. Until now.

Read the rest in "Why I said no to a divorce reality show" on Sassafrass Says So at Babble Voices. 

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