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I simply began planning.
A future where I didn’t have to shrink myself to fit beside someone who no longer respected the life we built.
A Lie Told With a Straight Face
A few days later, he walked through the front door with an odd calmness.
“Something strange happened today,” he said, settling beside me like we were still partners in everything.
He told me a coworker had mentioned online scams, and he quickly excused his dating profile as nothing more than a joke, something he did “just messing around.”
But hearing him, I realized the truth:
He wasn’t only lying to me.
He was lying to himself.
He had rewritten the story to make his choices seem harmless. Listening quietly allowed me to see him clearly for the first time in a long while.
Observing the Truth, Not the Illusion
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