Lost

“It saves me from having to talk about how actually painful it was.”

The woman my ex-husband left me for pursued him for years. When she finally got him to leave me, she gloated about it. She used a picture of the two of them together as her Facebook profile picture while we were still technically married. I saw it in Charlottesville, sitting with a friend on a bench in the city’s outdoor shopping promenade. I was on a d…