Let Your Dear Little Brother Hold You. Why Stay Married Until New Year?

On our third wedding anniversary, I came home early and caught my wife tying the tie of her “sworn younger brother.” The guy took the opportunity to put his arm around her waist, and she didn't even push him away. I gripped the custom photo album in my pocket, my heart turning to ice.

Everyone told me to be the bigger person, saying she was just softhearted. But when the dashcam captured her lies time and time again, and a neighbor photographed them embracing late at night, I promptly slapped a divorce agreement on the table.

When my ex-wife begged me to take her back, that “little brother” was using her ID to rack up a mountain of debt.

Years later, I raised a toast with the girl who truly loved me, while she had finally learned to pay off her debts on her own.

It turned out that boundaries were the safeguard that kept a marriage alive.