My Husband Introduced Another Woman as His “Next Wife.” I Left With One Suitcase—and Made One Call.

designed to break me. Lily found new ways to torment me—making me redo perfectly clean floors, complaining about imaginary flaws in my cooking, ordering me around like hired help. Carol was even worse, using me as her personal punching bag and entertainment for guests.

Mark ignored me completely, as if I were an appliance rather than the woman he’d continue reading …