{"id":7397,"date":"2024-03-13T00:25:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T00:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=7397"},"modified":"2024-03-13T00:25:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T00:25:42","slug":"i-divorced-my-husband-while-he-was-in-a-coma-after-finding-a-letter-with-my-name-under-our","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=7397","title":{"rendered":"I Divorced My Husband While He Was in a Coma after Finding a Letter with My Name under Our.."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\u201cGet some rest, and maybe some of James\u2019 personal belongings. Like pajamas and toiletries. I can\u2019t tell you how long he\u2019s going to be in a coma.\u201d So, I went back home \u2014 re-energized by the fact that I had a purpose. I needed to get James\u2019 belongings together, and then get back to the hospital. The first thing I did was go to the bathroom and look for any evidence. I searched for a puddle of water, something that James might have slipped on. I went on my hands and knees, dropping my handbag onto the bathroom mat. But there was nothing. In the chaos of gathering James\u2019 essentials \u2014 I remembered that I needed to phone my mother-in-law and let her know about the situation. Hurrying back to the bathroom, I went to get my phone from my handbag. But as I bent to retrieve it, a peculiar detail caught my eye, something that I had missed in my first search of the bathroom. Tucked under the bathtub was an envelope, sealed, with my name written across it in the unmistakable handwriting of my sister, Amelia, who had inexplicably cut ties and moved to another city a year ago. With my hands shaking, I opened the letter. With each word, the foundation of my marriage crumbled. Amelia confessed to having an affair with James. She wrote of her unbearable guilt. I cannot look myself in the mirror, Sarah.<\/p>\n

I am wrecked with the guilt of what we\u2019ve done. I read on, feeling my dinner churn in my stomach. May, your niece\u2026 She\u2019s actually James\u2019 daughter. She was the only good thing that came from the affair. Amelia went on to say that Hugh, her husband, had accepted May as his own \u2014 not questioning her paternity at all. My sister\u2019s letter laid bare the weight of her conscience, the torment of her silence. And then it got worse. Included in the envelope was a photograph of my niece, who I had known to be Hugh\u2019s daughter since my sister announced that she was pregnant. But knowing what I knew now \u2014 I could see James\u2019 eyes in May. Attached was a medical report detailing a rare genetic condition \u2014 undeniably, a condition that ran in James\u2019 family. Amelia\u2019s plea for forgiveness pierced through the haze of my shock. She explained that Hugh getting let-off his job had rendered her desperate in facing her daughter\u2019s medical challenges. I sat there, on the cold bathroom floor, surrounded by the fragments of my marriage and a broken relationship with my sister. I called Amelia, and the dam of our shared silence broke. \u201cI\u2019m so, so sorry, Sarah!\u201d she sobbed through the phone, after I revealed that I knew everything. \u201cI thought I could keep this from you forever, to protect you, but I couldn\u2019t do it anymore. May\u2019s getting sicker and I needed my sister.\u201d I didn\u2019t want to deal with Amelia \u2014 I just needed to know that there was truth to the story. And there was. I cut the call without saying anything else. But how could I confront James while he was in a coma, with his condition still uncertain? But from the way that the doctor had spoken to me \u2014 something just wasn\u2019t right. A few days later, while James was still in the coma \u2014 I filed for divorce, unable to bear the thought of facing him. I just can\u2019t do it,\u201d I said to James\u2019 mother when I told her everything. \u201cI can\u2019t sit here and wait for him to be okay, and know that the moment he opens his eyes, my entire world will change. I\u2019d rather make the change now.\u201d Two weeks later, James woke up to his mother sitting by his bedside, telling him about our divorce. I moved James\u2019 things out of our house and into his mother\u2019s place. And I decided that instead of being a wife \u2014 I could be a good big sister. Amelia and I reconciled, and I became a part of May\u2019s life. At the end of the day, she was just an innocent little girl tangled into the mess of humans. Humans were supposed to protect and cherish her. Despite the betrayal, my heart couldn\u2019t turn away from her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cGet some rest, and maybe some of James\u2019 personal belongings. Like pajamas and toiletries. I can\u2019t tell you how long he\u2019s going to be in a coma.\u201d… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7399,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397\/revisions\/7399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}