Losing Her was the Only Way to Find Me Again

It was the day we were celebrating my son turning one month old when I saw it.

A photo of him, my wife, and her first love—the three of them, smiling, like some happy family.

Edmund Kingsley posted it on Facebook. The caption?

[It's been so long! At last, our family got reunited!]

I just stared at the post for a minute.

It was my son between my wife and his first love, and all I could manage was a simple comment: [?]

Before I could even make sense of the picture and the caption, my phone buzzed. My wife.