11/20/2025
My husband left me for my high school friend after I had a miscarriageā3 years later, I saw them at a gas station and couldn't stop grinning.
For five years, my husband, Michael, and I built a life together. We had a cozy home, a steady routine, and a bond I thought was unshakable. Through it all, my best friend from high school, Anna, was by my sideāmy confidante, my maid of honor on my wedding day.
When I got pregnant, I thought our happiness was complete. But something changed in Michael.
At first, it was subtleāthe way he lingered at work a little longer, the way his smiles stopped reaching his eyes. Then it got worse. He barely looked at me. Conversations became one-word responses. Some nights, he'd roll over in bed, his back to me, like I wasn't even there.
I didn't understand. I was exhausted, heavily pregnant, and desperate to fix whatever had snapped inside him.
So, I turned to Anna.
"I don't know what's happening," I sobbed into the phone at midnight, curled up in the dark while Michael slept beside me, oblivious. "It's like he's already gone."
"Hel, you're overthinking," she murmured. "He loves you. It's just stress."
I wanted to believe her.
But the stress of it allāthe sleepless nights, the constant anxiety, the aching loneliness despite being marriedāwore me down.
Then, I lost the baby.
The pain of that moment was unlike anything I had ever felt. My husband barely reacted. He sat beside me in the hospital, cold and silent, his hands never reaching for mine. No whispered reassurances. No grief-stricken apologies. Just a man who looked like he was waiting for a bus, not mourning the child we had lost.
A month later, he left, delivering a cold, detached speech about being unhappy. And Anna? She vanished, too. One day, she was my rock, and the next, I was blocked on every platform.
I found out the truth through my mother's social media. There they wereāMichael and Anna, laughing on a beach, arms wrapped around each other. She had been posting pictures of them together for weeks, even before the divorce papers were finalized. She flaunted their vacations, their expensive dinners, their seemingly perfect love story.
I was shattered.
Three years later, I was rushing home from work when I stopped at a gas station and suddenly saw them. ā¬ļø
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