Last night was supposed to be special. My husband surprised me with a romantic dinner \u2014 candles, wine, soft music. He never did things like this, so I was caught off guard. I let myself believe maybe, just maybe, he was finally making an effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We ate. We laughed. We finished our wine. He went quiet. Too quiet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then the words came out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019ve been cheating.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n My heart stopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Before I could even absorb the weight of his confession, he added:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAnd she might be pregnant.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I sat frozen. Not crying. Not angry. Just hollow. But then, before I could respond, he picked up his phone, made a call, and said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCome in.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n The door opened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I turned my head slowly, preparing for the worst \u2014 Standing there wasn\u2019t her.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n It was my sister.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last night was supposed to be special. My husband surprised me with a romantic dinner \u2014 candles, wine, soft music. He never did things like this, so… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Then, half-joking, I said, \u201cOkay, what\u2019s going on? Are you dying or something?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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I didn\u2019t even know what to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
\u2026and froze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n