For a second, she looked shocked. But then she nodded, her voice calm. “It doesn’t change anything,” she said. “I made this decision a while ago.” She admitted she had been unhappy for nearly two years, and just couldn’t pretend anymore. I sat there, speechless, as everything I thought was solid in my life seemed to unravel all at once.

I never saw it coming. She never said a word about feeling this way. No fights, no big arguments just small signs I must have ignored. Now, looking back, I realize how far apart we’d drifted. And it hurts, knowing that while I was still trying to hold us together, she had already let go