My three-year-old pointed at my husband’s best friend’s boots during my husband’s birthday party and chirped, « Daddy cries there. » Everyone laughed—until she cheerfully repeated the secret she’d overheard during one of their Sunday outings. The silence that followed changed our marriage forever.
My husband’s thirtieth birthday should have been one of those family memories we’d laugh about for years.
Everyone we loved was in our backyard.
Our daughter was playing in the grass.
