My husband and I divorced after 36 years of marriage – At his funeral, his father drank too much and said to me, “You don’t even know what he did for you, do you?”

We got married at 20, at a time when it seemed neither unusual nor rushed.

We didn’t have much, but that didn’t worry us. Life seemed easy for a very long time, as if the future would take care of itself.

Then came the children: first a daughter, then a son two years later.

We bought a house in the suburbs and took a holiday once a year, usually somewhere we could drive to, while the children asked, “Are we there already?”

Everything was so normal that I didn’t even notice the lies until it was too late.

Life seemed easy to us for a very long time.

We had been married for 35 years when I noticed that money was missing from our joint account.

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