My father-in-law roared, unable to stand it anymore:
“What’s the use of a man like this? And you’re still defending him?”
Emily cried out:
“Marriage is about loyalty! He can abandon me, but I can’t abandon him!”
Her words only infuriated her father further.
He cursed, calling me a disgrace, while my mother-in-law tried to smooth things over.
She insisted I give a reason for the divorce.
I stared coldly at Emily.
“Don’t you know what you’ve done?”
I didn’t want to humiliate her in front of her parents, so I held back.
But Emily, confused, pressed on:
“What did I do? Is it just because I’ve been traveling so much lately?”
“If it’s about the money, I’ll pay for my own trips from now on.”
I told her it wasn’t about the money.
Over the past half year, she’d spent tens of thousands of dollars on those trips, and I never complained.
I never even asked where all that money went.
To me, her recovery was more important than anything.
But it turned out her so-called postpartum depression was a complete lie.
“Daniel, please don’t be angry, okay? I know you’re under a lot of pressure. I’ll be more careful from now on.”
Her pitiful display only made her father’s anger boil over.