This wife woke up to find that her husband hadn't come to bed. So she went outside to check how much gas was in the car – and that's when she saw it.

BY AMANDA GHESSIE

Brie Gowen is a busy wife and mother juggling home life with a career as a Intensive Care Unit Nurse. Together she and her husband of six years, Benjamin Gowen, have two girls — a five-year-old and a two-year-old — and a third on the way. They also share custody of her husband’s twelve-year-old daughter from a previous marriage.

Gowen tells IJ Lift that she loves marriage, and is incredibly grateful for her husband. And for this reason she recalls a morning when she was jolted awake, only to find herself alone in her bed.

Her husband? Nowhere to be found. Continue…