I Gave Up Dancing for Our Marriage, He Spent Five Years Dancing with Her

Synopsis

On our fifth wedding anniversary, my husband promised he'd dance only with me. I'd been practicing in secret for three weeks for that rumba. But when the music started, he let go of my hand and took his ex-girlfriend's. "Wait until the next song." I waited until both glasses of sparkling water went flat, until the dance was half over. When he finally walked toward me, he didn't reach for my hand-he shoved his phone at me. "Film us for a bit. Our coach wants to see." Five years earlier, he'd insisted I pull out of a competition two weeks before it started because my dance partner had once had feelings for me. Back then, he'd said our marriage should come first. Only now did I realize he meant it should come first for me, not for him.