 (Nick Galifianakis for The Post) | Adapted from an online discussion. Dear Carolyn: A few years ago, my first marriage ended on bitter terms. I was at fault: I was cheating and left when my girlfriend, now wife, got pregnant. I regret my actions and wish I'd been a stronger man. But at the time, my first wife and I were both miserable because of a late-term miscarriage, and I needed to feel something other than grief and sadness. Recently, my sister told me my ex-wife published a novel. I was quite surprised, because she's a technical writer and never expressed interest in fiction. It's a thinly veiled account of our last year together, and I'm very much the villain. I hate that she remembers only the bad times, and I wrote an email to the address in the back of the book expressing my apologies. She wrote back and said that those were only words and that they don't change anything. Fairly rich coming from a writer, but I just have to live with being the villain of her story forever, correct? Or are there other steps I could and should take? — The Villain's Remorse | 
