At 35, I married my wealthy 72-year-old boss so my daughter and I wouldn’t end up homeless. After he died, his lawyer looked at me and said, “He prepared this trap specifically for you… and he knew you would fall into it.”

I was thirty-five years old when I married a seventy-two-year-old man.

No, I didn’t love him at first.

I simply didn’t see another way out.

I grew up moving from one foster family to another, and from a very young age, I learned what it felt like to pack your suitcase and be sent to yet another stranger’s home, hoping that maybe this time they would keep you.

My first husband, Ben, had grown up in the foster system too.

Maybe that was why we understood each other so quickly.

We weren’t rich. I worked in a small store, and Ben was a mechanic. But we had a   RPV