And I said, “I’m working out how long.”

She said, “Does it matter how long?”

And I said yes, and she said why, and I gave her the honest answer, which was the first honest thing I said out loud that night.

I said: “Because if it started in 2022 then he married me while he was already doing it, and if it started last year then something changed, and those are two completely different men and I need to know which one I have been living with.”

Part Six: What a Marriage Record Actually Is

On the Sunday morning I got up at five and drove to Palm Beach and I did not go into my own house.