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

farming town three hours south, the daughter of hardworking parents who’d given me everything they could but had nothing extra. When Mark and I met in college, he’d seemed charmed by my simplicity, my lack of pretension. It wasn’t until after the wedding that I realized what he really wanted was someone he could control.

The first time I met Carol, continue reading …