Thank you so much! I certainly hope that other trophy wives found each other and connected that way. I didn’t know any others; my husband was not typical in his career, so his colleagues’ and associates’ wives were not like me. (Yes I’m being deliberately vague here…) :-)

As for maintaining the image of a perfect relationship…well, at first, and for a long while, things were good enough that the small not-good things were, well, small. We did in fact marry for love. I think the pressure grew when parts of me realized I was becoming unhappy and unhappier but most of me refused to face that. Because I did love him, and our life was good.

It was quite a process. Thank you for your kind words!