At 2:47 a.m., my husband sent me a text message from Las Vegas casually informing me that he had just married his coworker. He boldly confessed that they’d been sleeping together for eight months—and cruelly added that I was too “predictable” to ever notice his betrayal. By the time the sun came up the next morning, every single credit card in his wallet had been canceled, every lock on my front door had been changed, and the comfortable, effortless life he had relied on for years was already falling apart at the seams. He thought that late-night message would completely destroy me. Instead, it made me hyper-focused.
My name is Mara Collins. I was thirty-four years old the night my marriage officially ended.
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