I Spent Nearly Two Weeks Recovering From Surgery and My Husband Never Visited Once—Then I Came Home and Froze at the Front Door
My sister lived forty minutes away.
Friends would have come.
I told almost nobody how alone I felt.
Why?
Because Gavin was supposed to be the person in the chair.
Accepting someone else felt like admitting something terrible about the marriage before I knew whether it was true.
So I protected appearances while furious that Gavin was hiding truth.
Different behavior.