While eavesdropping on a phone call, I heard my son say, “Hi, Mom! I’ll visit you tomorrow instead of going to school!” That prompted me to follow him.
I never could have imagined that a single moment of curiosity, coupled with the innocence of a child’s voice, would expose a secret that would shatter my world. The discovery of my husband’s clandestine relationship—and the realization that my son had come to regard another woman as his “Mom”—set into motion a chain of events…