How do you explain to your wife what you have been doing for the last 5 years.
Actually, he's been hanging out with her.
NOW SHE DISAPPEARED... Maybe in 5 years she'll turn up with "amnesia".
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/12/07/missing.canoeist/index.html
Wasn't this similar to the movie Get Shorty, fake death, collect insurance money...