I was on a Zoom call for work when my wife quickly slipped into the room, grabbed her phone, and left. The next day, my boss wanted a one-on-one meeting. He said, “We’re letting you go!” I was shocked. When I asked why, he simply replied, “Ask your wife.”

Horrified, I discovered that my boss knew my wife—they were family at one point. Turns out her first husband was my boss’s younger brother. I knew my wife had ended her first marriage badly, and the reason was because she had been having an affair… with me.

Her first husband had never recovered from the split. He spiraled into a deep depression and even disappeared for a while. According to my wife, the divorce had devastated him emotionally and financially. Still, I never imagined that her first husband was my boss’s brother.
She was equally unaware because she never knew who my boss was—only that I worked at a large company with many branches. This hidden connection might have stayed buried forever if she hadn’t appeared behind me on that Zoom call, even for just a split second. In the end, I lost a job I loved and relied on.