Overview
- Bayly describes his wife's 37th birthday as the worst day of the year in a first-person column.
- He says he told his daughter he would accept whatever choice her mother made, then the daughter disclosed the conversation to her mother, triggering a confrontation.
- He writes that his wife arrived over an hour late and intoxicated to a planned dinner, after spending the afternoon with her karate instructor.
- Bayly reports a silent return home, a sleepless night despite pills, and the cancellation of planned trips to Buenos Aires and Paris.
- He notes he had bought gold jewelry for his wife and gifts for the instructor, and all details published so far come solely from his account without public responses from those involved.