Old Friend, New Relationship-Part 1 I met Karen in my divorce support group while I was dealing with my second divorce and she was trying to cope with her first. About the only thing that we had in common was that both our spouses had cheated with good friends of ours. She was a couple years older and very attractive. I remember that she always dressed so well for our group meetings. We both attended regularly for almost...

Before I even realized it, we had fallen into a pattern of visits to the sisters’ salon. On a weekly basis, I was having my hair set, my nails done, and my make-up applied expertly by some combination of Kim and/or Kristie. Often one would do the work while the other recorded the proceedings on video or with a digital still camera. Several of the photos made their way onto the mirrors of the salon’s stations. The upshot o...

I must have read about a million of these stories and I have to confess that mine isn’t so unique--maybe only in the details, but not so much in how things started or how things ended. You can probably write the first lines yourself: “Things started out so innocently. We had a typical relationship that somewhere, some way, took a dramatic turn that I never saw coming. At first, I was all for the plan, but by the time I ha...