Everything that my husband, Lynde, wrote happened as he tells it. We had two small children and we were completely renovating our home at the time—from the foundation to the roof. At one stage of the work, we had to move out and stay with friends. It was a very stressful time. I was working a full-time job as director of a private school, and rather than feeling my husband's support, his words and actions suggested to me that he didn't love me anymore.
However, I was thrilled to learn I had been awarded a government fellowship along with 40 other teachers nationwide to study at Miami University in Ohio for a month. When my husband took me to the airport, the look in his eyes all but said to me, "I don't care if I ever see you again." That, and being separated from my children, was more than I could bear. Another participant in the University was in a troubled marriage as well, and we quickly found we had a lot in common. We were very supportive of each other, and soon, we thought we had fallen in love. We decided we wanted to be together after the month was over and that we would leave our spouses and eventually marry. I was so startled when my husband said he already knew this. We hadn't written one another or communicated at all until my phone call to him. In hindsight, I realize that nothing but divine Mind could have alerted him to how I was feeling. I continued to study the Bible Lesson daily while I was away, and I'm sure my husband did the same.
Our prayers didn't go unanswered. When I got home, I found a different man, the man I always knew my husband to be—funny, kind, gentle, supportive, loving. He had worked so hard on our home and had accomplished so much. On top of that, he had filled the house with flowers for me. Even so, it still took time, constant prayer, and humility to face what I had done and to extricate myself from the other relationship. I doubt that without my husband's continued love and support, I would have been able to do it. However, I'm happy to say that the other man also reconciled with his wife, and they too, went on to enjoy a strengthened marriage.
