I Came Home From Qatar and Found My Mother Locked in a Room—Then I Lifted Her Mattress and Found an Insurance File in My Name Dated Two Days in the Future

That question hurt.

Then I learned to answer honestly.

Because trust is efficient.

Human beings cannot personally audit every statement made by everyone they love.

That would make intimacy impossible.

I trusted my husband.

He exploited it.

That does not mean trusting him was automatically foolish from the beginning.