When my husband started acting distant, I turned to my best friend for comfort. She told me I was overthinking things. Turns out, I wasn’t.
But three years later, fate gave me front-row seats to the consequences of their betrayal.
I used to think betrayal happened to other people—the kind you read about in dramatic Reddit threads or hear about in whispers at dinner parties. Not to me. Not to us.
For five years, Michael and I built a life together.
It wasn’t flashy, but it was ours—movie nights on the couch, Sunday morning coffee runs, and inside jokes that made no sense to anyone but us.
And through it all, there was Anna—my best friend since high school, my sister in every way but blood. She had been there for every milestone, including my wedding day, standing beside me as my maid of honor, clutching my hands and crying happy tears.
So when I got pregnant, I thought it was just another chapter of our perfect life.
But then, Michael changed.
At first, it was subtle—the 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 all—the sleepless nights, the constant anxiety, the aching loneliness despite being married—wore me down.
Then, one morning, I woke up with a dull pain in my stomach.
By evening, I was in the hospital, staring at a doctor’s lips moving, but not really hearing the words.
No heartbeat.
No baby.
Grief is supposed to come in waves. Mine felt like an avalanche.
The miscarriage shattered me, but Michael?
He was already gone. 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.
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