I Cared for My Husband’s Mom for Five Months After Surgery While He Was Cheating – So I Taught Him a Lesson by Taking What He Valued Most

When Penelope agrees to care for her mother-in-law, she doesn’t expect to do it alone, or to uncover the betrayal unraveling behind her back. But when the truth surfaces, she doesn’t beg or break. She makes one quiet move that changes everything, and leaves him with nothing he can’t replace.

It was my husband’s idea.

One day, Eric sat across from me at our kitchen table, the one I refinished during lockdown, holding a mug he didn’t wash, wearing a shirt I folded, and said it like it was a compliment.

His mother, Julia, had fallen, which meant that she needed hip surgery, several weeks of rehabilitation, and now she was coming home.

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