My Best Friend Told Me She’s Cheating on Her Husband
How I responded and why I regret saying what I did.
My best friend had been absent from my life for the previous three months.
Yes, we lived two time zones apart, but normally Lauren and I texted daily and spoke on the phone once a week.
Then she disappeared.
I assumed she was going through something she wasn’t ready to talk about or was dealing with a recurrence of depression.
I never suspected that she was cheating on her husband.
How She Told Me
After weeks of evading my phone calls, she finally agreed to talk on a Saturday afternoon.
I was taken aback when she sounded boisterously happy, more so than I’d experienced in her for years.
After a bit of chit-chat, I asked her directly what was going on. I shared that I knew she was avoiding me. What didn’t she want to talk about?
“I’ve been cheating on Doug,” she said. “And I’ve never been happier.”
