My nonverbal son revealed my husband’s secret by writing “Dad lies!” on his palm to warn me.
My husband James’s recent habit of coming home early — always while our nanny was still there — started to worry me. Something felt off. But it was our six-year-old son, Oliver, who opened my eyes to the truth. Although Oliver couldn’t speak, he found his own ways to communicate. One day, he came up to me with a message written on his palm in blue marker: “Dad lies!” Those two words, coming from our quiet, watchful little boy, shook me. And they led me to a secret that would