After 16 years of marriage, I received a thank-you card for a wedding I\u2019d never attended.<\/p>\n
\u201cRebecca, thank you for saving my dress!\u201d the bride wrote.<\/p>\n
My husband Mark claimed the bride had confused me with someone else. But when I contacted her, she sent a photograph showing Mark with another woman\u2014introduced as his wife.<\/p>\n
The woman, Lauren, called me. She was an actress Mark had paid $700 to impersonate me.<\/p>\n
Then she sent his instructions.<\/p>\n
According to Mark, I was a wealthy corporate attorney from a successful family. In reality, I worked part-time as a teaching assistant after years of raising our two children.<\/p>\n
When I confronted him, he admitted he\u2019d been lying to his college friends for two years. He’d invented expensive vacations, a mansion, and my glamorous career because he felt inferior to their success.<\/p>\n
He even hired a stranger for the wedding because he feared I\u2019d reveal the truth.<\/p>\n
What hurt most wasn’t the money. It was realizing the life I’d built with him embarrassed him.<\/p>\n
Mark moved out. He confessed to his friends and started counseling. We’re also trying marriage counseling, but I still don’t know if I can trust him.<\/p>\n
I love him. Yet if our marriage survives, he’ll have to respect the woman he actually married\u2014not the one he paid to invent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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