Waiting to Be Chosen: What I Learned From Five Years as the Other Woman

Being chosen is something we all want. Not just in relationships. We want to be chosen by friends, by family, in our careers, in every room we walk into. And when we're not, we sit there and pick ourselves apart. What could I have done differently? What was it about me that wasn't good enough? It's a brutal little loop, and almost everyone runs it at some point.

But there's a version of wanting to be chosen that's sharper than the rest, and that's the one that lives inside an affair.