He Regrets Losing Me

Disabled wife flees a loveless marriage after husband honors his first love.

Five unconsummated years collapse when the wife finds her husband in the bathroom invoking his first love on their anniversary. The next day he hosts a banquet for that woman and stays silent while friends ridicule the wife's disability. She files for divorce, but he tears up the papers. While secretly preparing to study abroad, the first love frames her and sets a fire that nearly kills her. He protects the instigator, twisting the truth, and she finally leaves for good.

• romance
• divorce
• betrayal
• female growth

1. Marriage never consummated in five years
2. Husband hosts dinner for first love
3. Wife framed and nearly burned alive

Readers who want a disabled protagonist escaping a cruel, sexless marriage.