We continue on that way for a year or so. She's a strong woman and with my love and support I'm sure she'll be ok. She tells me all the time that she'll figure it out and be ok. I just try to be there for her whatever she needs and on we go.
One of the guys in my band was a neighbor two houses away. Around the same age as us. We became good friends with him and his wife. They have adorable kids, much younger than ours.
Now the end of Camelot.
It's Sunday, March 17, 2013. Family dinner. Boys usually come buy Sunday evenings and we have something special that I cook (I cook, she cleans it up, that's always the deal). Anyway it's all normal and suddenly someone knocks on the door. Not really knocks but beats the crap out of the door. Pounds on it so loud that it startles the heck out of all of us. I jump up to go see what's up.
When I opened the door there was no one there. After a second I see someone in the front yard screaming, crying, flailing about. Basically going crazy. Of course I'm like WTF??? I realize it's our neighbor (wife). She's screaming incoherently. I mean really wild. I figured there was something wrong with her medically or some horrific thing has just happened. I go out to her to find out what's wrong. She tones it down enough to scream at me that "my husband and you're wife are f*cking." I'm like what??? She says "they're f*cking!!! I saw them! My f*cking as*hole husband is f*cking your GD whore wife."
Well now I'm made. Of course this is complete horse sh*t. How dare she say something like this. We're not one of those types of couples. We're a Disney Channel couple, not a Cinemax couple. We don't go out to bars, we don't party. We definitely don't have affairs. Not us. We're not like that.
I do my duty as the husband and defend my wife's honor. I don't remember my exact words but it's something like how dare you, I don't know what's going on in your life but shame on you for coming to my house and doing something like this.
My wife is standing in the doorway of the open front door. I'm out in the yard with my crazy neighbor. I'm really pissed. Nobody calls my wife a whore. I turn around to look at my wife to get her nod of approval for defending her honor against these obviously false claims and my life as I know it ends.