At 2:47 a.m., my husband texted me from Las Vegas: he had just married his coworker, had been sleeping with her for eight months, and thought I’d be too “boring” to do anything about it. By sunrise, I had canceled every card in his wallet, changed every lock on my house, and started tearing down the life he built on my back. He thought that message would break me. It only made me efficient.
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