My husband had his company Christmas party last Friday.<\/p>\n
They were doing a funny T-shirt contest, so before he left, I grabbed a marker and wrote across his shirt:<\/p>\n
“This husband is taken. Please return him by midnight.”<\/strong><\/p>\n He laughed, kissed me goodbye, and promised he wouldn’t stay out late.<\/p>\n Well, he came home around three in the morning.<\/p>\n He was tipsy but in a great mood.<\/p>\n I helped him get changed because he could barely keep his eyes open.<\/p>\n That’s when I noticed writing on the back of his shirt.<\/p>\n Someone had added:<\/p>\n “Then ask him why he’s been telling everyone you’re separated.”<\/strong><\/p>\n I read it three times.<\/p>\n The next morning, I showed him the shirt.<\/p>\n He immediately stopped smiling.<\/p>\n At first, he claimed someone was playing a joke.<\/p>\n Then I asked him directly whether he’d been telling people we weren’t together.<\/p>\n He admitted he’d told a woman from another department that our marriage was struggling.<\/p>\n Apparently, they’d been texting for weeks.<\/p>\n He insisted nothing physical had happened.<\/p>\n I asked to see the messages.<\/p>\n He hesitated.<\/p>\n That told me enough.<\/p>\n I wasn’t upset about the Christmas party or even the stupid joke.<\/p>\n I was upset because someone at his office knew more about my marriage than I did.<\/p>\n And whoever wrote that message had apparently decided I deserved to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My husband had his company Christmas party last Friday. They were doing a funny T-shirt contest, so before he left, I grabbed a marker and wrote across his shirt: “This husband is taken. Please return him by midnight.” He laughed, kissed me goodbye, and promised he wouldn’t stay out late. Well, he came home around …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10603,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10601\/revisions\/10603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}