My Husband Invited His Ex to Our Housewarming. I Gave Him the Calmest Response of His Life.

that I’d forgotten to ask myself if this relationship was actually making me happy.

My friend Ava had seen it months ago, over coffee at our favorite Capitol Hill cafe. She’d looked at me across her latte and asked, point-blank, “Are you happy with Derek?”

I’d given her the standard response, the automatic one. “Yeah, of course. Why wouldn’t I be?”

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