My brother’s wife brought her affair friend to their home on a Saturday, while her cancer-sick husband (my brother) was 70 miles away in hospice at their cabin. I’d been helping watch their kids whenever she spent long stretches up there with him but, that particular day, she had her friend pick the kids up, instead of asking me.
When her friend came, she looked surprised to see me waving from my porch, which was the first red flag, she clearly hadn’t been told I was around. I walked over and asked if everything was okay. My sister-in-law said the kids were going to a birthday party that had been planned “two weeks ago.” That was the second red flag: I’m around those (very talkative) kids constantly and had never heard a single word about any party.
I asked again if everything was really okay, then went back home. The last strange thing she did was taking her husband’s car out of the garage and parking it by the street. She then left in her car. I feel really sorry for my brother, because she came home and pulled her car into the empty garage to covertly get her boyfriend in. I eventually knew of this because my brother cracked and caught the whole incident (how he did is in my bio). He shared it with me when I went visiting him couple weeks after. I also shared my observation of the incident from my porch with him. The whole situation is pathetic.