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But as time passed, the warmth cooled. The man who once rushed home to tell me about his day began offering vague excuses for late nights. Work trips became more frequent and less believable. He guarded his phone like it held national secrets. And slowly, I began to feel the ground shift beneath my feet.
The first clear sign came when I found a long blonde hair on his jacket. It wasn’t mine. When I confronted him, he insisted I was misunderstanding, told me I was imagining things. But my instincts whispered a different truth.
I pushed those whispers aside until the day the truth could no longer be denied. I discovered him spending time with someone I had never met—a woman named Kara. He didn’t deny it. He simply packed a bag and walked out, leaving our daughters and me to piece together what remained.
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