My Husband Took Me on a ‘Make-Up Hike’ to Save Our Marriage and Left Me on a Mountain – But Karma Struck Him Before Sunset

His face changed.

All day he had been cold, smug, impatient. But now he looked flat. Blank. Like he had stopped pretending.

He said, very calmly, “I want to teach you a lesson.”

I actually laughed once because it sounded so insane.

“What?”

“You need to learn how to be a better wife.”

I stared at him.

He kept going. “You question everything. You complain. You make every day harder than it has to be. Sit here for a while and think about that.”

He looked at my ankle, then at me.

I said, “Mike, stop. This isn’t funny.”

He picked up his backpack.

He left me water, snacks, and a map to the bottom.

I felt my stomach drop. “Are you seriously leaving?”