ESSAY February 2026 - A Subtle Foe - Anonymous

Her experience has taught her that gossip in the Fellowship can be a harmful form of disclosure. Sexual intimacy is a way to communicate my commitment to my spouse. That is why it hurt deeply when my husband, while we were married, told me that he was having an affair. His affair communicated that I didn’t matter to him. I became physically sick and didn’t want to live anymore. I wish he had never told me because that information is permanently seared into my brain. I can’t unremember it.