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

There it was — the compliment wrapped in expectation.

“I’ll help when I can,” he added, which we both knew was code for rarely.

We’d been married for 15 years. I knew when I was being asked versus when I was being cornered.

So I said yes, because that’s what I’ve always done in my marriage.

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For the next five months, I was up before the sun, guiding Julia to the bathroom, prepping her bland breakfasts, heating compresses, and adjusting pillows.

I squeezed conference calls between pain medication alarms and reheated my coffee three times before I could finish it.

But don’t get me wrong — Julia was never unkind about it all.

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