That is what an affair actually costs a wife.

Not the discovery.

The two years before the discovery, in which she is tired enough to talk herself out of what she can see.

Part Three: Wendy

People find the mother-in-law part of this story hard to believe, and I understand why, because the mother-in-law in these stories is supposed to be the villain, or at minimum a complication.

Wendy Aldarossi was neither.

She did not like me for the first two years.