Belle Burden

I thought he was a very devoted, mild, kind person, and he had never told me once that he was unhappy.

It didn't feel that way.

I felt a real intimacy with him.

And I did accept a little bit of remove.

He was a little bit removed, a little bit distant.

But I felt like that was a quirk in his personality.

Right.

And I guess there was more bubbling beneath the surface, maybe.

Yes, yes, yes.

But it was not a situation of realizing, oh, my gosh, he's been leading this double life all along.

Yes.

The toddler's about three and one year old.

Well, at that point he had stopped answering my phone calls and told me that I was too upset for him to speak to.

But I caught him in the middle of the night.

He picked up the phone at about 1 a.m.

because I was spiraling thinking that he had actually fathered them.

And he said, stop, you have lost your mind.

And he hung up the phone.

But that seemed in this world where everything that I thought was impossible was now possible.

I thought even that could be possible.