Chapter 1: December 2005

I was married just over 7 years. My wife at that time worked on and off. She would take a job, usually as a medical receptionist, work for a couple of years, quit and later repeat.

This year, 2005, she took a job at Lowe's Home Improvement. She would work nights and weekends.

Our children were 4 and 2 at this point. Most weekends it was just the three of us. The Ex worked extra hours when she could get them. We weren't rich but we could comfortably pay our bills. This allowed the Ex to quit her job when she got tired of it so it was curious to me how many hours she was putting into Lowe's.

On one of those weekends in early December, the kids and I were going to do some shopping at the mall. I got the kids ready at our house and put them in light coats and began looking for my keys, wallet and sunglasses. I had everything but the sunglasses so I decided we had to look in mommy's car which was at her work.

We drove to Lowe's and found the car. I began looking inside, glove box, under the seat and so on. I saw what looked like a sunglasses case and opened it. It didn't contain any sunglasses but instead was mostly my Ex's makeup and some miscellaneous items such as condoms.