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This Was The Angriest Moment of My Marriage
My Husband Had Never Lost His Temper in 36 Years Until This Happened
I didn’t think I should be blamed for trying to keep my marriage together. When I look back now, I realize it was a hopeless ploy. It was the one time I saw my husband totally lose his temper since I met him in 1979.
In our 28th year of marriage he told me we were going to have an open marriage because he thought it might help him improve our connection that had been severely weakened when I had a stroke in 1999. His being “in a relationship” with drugs in the stroke’s aftermath deepened the divide.
Without being given a choice in the matter, I reluctantly agreed to the arrangement. If he was going to do it anyway as he said he would, I went along with it in an effort to do whatever it took to save the marriage.
Within a week he was in bed with a woman in Colorado he had met on business in 2014 despite claiming he didn’t have anyone in mind for the new arrangement.
I had met her once when he invited her to join us at our vacation place. He thought she and I might be friends. I knew it smelled very fishy, but played along. We exchanged phone numbers that weekend.
