I was 55, newly widowed after 36 years of marriage, when I found something at my husband Greg\u2019s funeral that made my heart stop.<\/p>\n
As I leaned over his casket to place a red rose in his hands, I noticed a small folded note tucked beneath his fingers. In the restroom, I opened it and read the words that shattered me: \u201cEven though we could never be together the way we deserved\u2026 my kids and I will love you forever.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Greg and I had no children. After years of infertility, he had always told me that I<\/em> was enough. So who had written that note?<\/p>\n I checked the chapel security footage and saw Susan, a woman from Greg\u2019s work, slipping it into his casket. When I confronted her, she claimed Greg had fathered her two children. Humiliated and devastated, I left without another word.<\/p>\n Later, at home, I read through Greg\u2019s journals. Page after page, he wrote about our life, our pain, our love. Then I found entries about Susan\u2014her failing company, poor shipments, and Greg refusing to do business with her.<\/p>\n With help from Greg\u2019s friend Peter and his son Ben, I learned the truth: Susan had lied. Her children were her husband\u2019s. She admitted she only wanted to hurt me because she blamed Greg for ruining her business.<\/p>\n That day, I realized something I\u2019ll never forget: my grief was real, but so was my marriage. And Greg never stopped loving me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was 55, newly widowed after 36 years of marriage, when I found something at my husband Greg\u2019s funeral that made my heart stop. As I leaned over his casket to place a red rose in his hands, I noticed a small folded note tucked beneath his fingers. In the restroom, I opened it and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5072","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\/5072","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=5072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5074,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5072\/revisions\/5074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}