I had a feeling something was wrong in my son's marriage, but he refused to believe it. When a friend from a hotel called me with news about my daughter-in-law, I knew I had to show him the truth with his own eyes.
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I am Jenna, 46 years old, and I have always trusted my instincts as a mother.
That instinct told me something was wrong with my daughter-in-law long before anyone else noticed.
Victoria had been married to my son Ethan for four years. At first, I truly believed she loved him. She was polite, charming, and always smiling whenever we had dinner together.
Ethan adored her.
The way he looked at her reminded me of the way people in movies look at their soulmates.
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But over time, little things began to change.
At first, the signs were small enough to ignore.
Victoria started coming home later from work. She would claim she had extra meetings or that a coworker needed help to finish a project. Sometimes she said traffic had been terrible. Ethan never questioned it. He trusted her completely.
