I opened his letter at the kitchen table we once shared, the same place we paid bills, planned birthdays, and silently drifted apart. His handwriting shook across the page as he described appointments, treatments, and nights alone in that anonymous hotel room, terrified I would see him as broken. The money I thought he’d wasted on someone else had been spent trying to buy more time. He hadn’t been unfaithful; he had been afraid.Grief took on a new shape then—no longer sharp with betrayal, but heavy with all the conversations we never had. I wished I had asked harder questions, pushed past my pride, and given him space to be weak. Instead, we both surrendered to fear: his of being seen, mine of being deceived. Standing in the quiet after his funeral, I understood that love doesn’t only die from lies, but from the truths we’re too frightened to share.
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