When she explained the situation, we agreed that she needed to find a family lawyer who specializes in divorce. I sat down on the trail overlooking the ocean and asked her to calm down. I received a call while hiking Temescal Canyon (where I usually don’t even have cell service) and thought nothing of it. She moved to Albuquerque several years after I moved to Los Angeles, so we stay in touch even though we barely ever see each other. When the conduit was closed, so was the marriage. He failed to let her know about a few sexual partners and she became distrustful (understandably).
For them, marriage was about the sharing of information. They actually had an “open” marriage, so “cheating” is a relative term.
My sister and her husband are in the midst of a messy divorce because he was caught cheating.
