My Patient Claimed She Was Pregnant With My Husband’s Baby — The Next Morning, She Called Screaming

I’m going to tell this the way it happened, which means the ugly part doesn’t show up where you’d expect it.

If you’ve seen the short version of this going around — doctor’s wife, pregnant mistress, big confrontation — that version has the wrong villain in it. I know, because for about eighteen hours I had the wrong villain too, and I almost burned down my own marriage over it.The actual answer was sitting in a house that smelled like lemon polish, drinking tea, waiting for me to do exactly what I did.