My Daughter Married My Ex-Husband – but on Their Wedding Day, My Son Pulled Me Aside and Revealed a Shocking Truth

By morning, Rowan had filed for an annulment, citing fraud due to Arthur’s plan to marry her for financial gain, and other discrepancies.

The paperwork hadn’t even been filed long enough to make her a wife on record. She packed her things and moved back in with me temporarily, and we started talking again — really talking — about everything.

We spoke about my divorce with her father, about Arthur, and about how sometimes, in trying so hard not to repeat your parents’ mistakes, you end up walking straight into them from another door.

A few days later, she asked me something I hadn’t expected.

“Did you love him?” she said.

I thought about it.

“I thought I did,” I said finally.

“I loved who I thought he was — the man who asked me questions about my dreams, who made me tea when I was sick. But I think now… I loved the quiet. Not him.”

She nodded slowly.

“Same.”

We laughed a little at that.

It was the kind of laughter that comes after grief — shaky and soft, but real.

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