I froze when my 4-year-old said that.
\u201cYour\u2026 what?\u201d I asked, my voice trembling.
\u201cMy other mom,\u201d she said innocently. \u201cMom Lizzie says you\u2019re the evil mom and she\u2019s kind. We\u2019re going to the beach soon!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I forced a smile. \u201cWho\u2019s Mom Lizzie, sweetheart?\u201d
\u201cShe lives in our house,\u201d my daughter replied. \u201cYou know her, Mommy. Don\u2019t pretend!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My heart nearly stopped. I played along, kissed her forehead, and said, \u201cWanna go see Grandma, dear? We\u2019ll stay the night there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Once she fell asleep, I quietly turned on the nanny cam<\/strong> \u2014 the one hidden on the bookshelf. My hands shook as I scrolled through the footage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And then I saw it. My husband\u2026 laughing, hugging, and kissing<\/em> another woman \u2014 inside my own home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But that wasn\u2019t the worst part. That night, I packed our things. \u201cTell Lizzie she can have the house. But not my child.\u201d \ud83d\udc94<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I froze when my 4-year-old said that.\u201cYour\u2026 what?\u201d I asked, my voice trembling.\u201cMy other mom,\u201d she said innocently. \u201cMom Lizzie says you\u2019re the evil mom and she\u2019s… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
When the woman turned her face to the camera\u2026 she was wearing my robe, tucking my daughter into bed, whispering, \u201cGoodnight, sweetie. Mommy Lizzie loves you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The next morning, I left a note on the kitchen counter that said only one thing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n