My Dad Aban:doned My Mom When He Found Out About Her Can:cer Diagnosis, Saying ‘I’m Not a Nurse’ – Ten Years Later, Karma Paid Him a Visit

“Please don’t go.”

Mom called us upstairs. She looked smaller somehow. Fragile. Her head was wrapped in a pale blue scarf, and her eyes were glassy from exhaustion.

“Where’s your father?” she asked.

Jason looked at me.

I forced the words out. “He left.”

Mom closed her eyes for a long moment. When she opened them again, she didn’t cry.

She simply nodded. “Alright.”

“Where’s your father?”

***

Within a month, Dad had moved into a luxury condo across town with his 24-year-old personal trainer. Her name was Brittany. We found that out from one of Mom’s friends who saw them together at a restaurant.

Within another month, Dad’s mortgage payments stopped. Mom tried to hide the letters from the bank, but I saw them stacked on the kitchen counter. Red stamps. FINAL NOTICE.

Eventually, a man in a suit came to the door, and we lost the house.

Two weeks later, we packed our things.