Months after they separated, he admitted he had known for a long time that there was another person. He just stayed quiet because he didn’t want our family to break apart.

One night he said, “If I didn’t have children, I would’ve èndèd my life already.”

That sentence never left me.

And yet somebody would still easily tell us, ‘That’s still your mom.’”

Lady recounts how her father’s painful marriage experience changed her perception of love and family forever.