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00:00I always thought I was being honest, maybe too honest. My name is Lauren Mitchell. I was raised

00:06in a household where being blunt was considered a virtue. My father used to say, don't sugarcoat

00:12what someone can swallow straight. And I carried that into adulthood. I believed in brutal truth,

00:18even when it hurt, especially when it hurt. When I met Jeremy at a friend's 4th of July barbecue,

00:24I was at one of the lowest points in my life. I was 29, single, and tired of the dating game.

00:31I had just gotten out of a messy situationship with a guy who ghosted me after talking about

00:36marriage for months. That summer, I swore off bad boys and started giving nice guys a chance.

00:42Jeremy was safe. Sweet. Predictable. He brought me lemonade and offered to hold my plate while I

00:49juggled my burger and corn on the cob. He laughed at all my sarcastic jokes and nodded like he

00:55genuinely got me. He wasn't the kind of guy who turned heads, but he had kind eyes and a job he

01:00loved. He worked as a physical therapist at a local clinic. We started dating. It wasn't fireworks,

01:06but it was steady. Every Sunday, we went to brunch. Every Wednesday, dinner at my place. He introduced me

01:13to his family by the second month, and his mom gave me that look like she already had wedding

01:18invitations in her purse. Still, deep down, I wasn't head over heels. I tried to be. I wanted

01:25to be. But I kept telling myself, at least he won't break your heart. One night, about a year into our

01:31relationship, Jeremy proposed in the middle of a hike at Red Rock Canyon. I said yes. Not because I was

01:38overwhelmed with joy. Not because my heart was racing. But because I was exhausted. Tired of waiting

01:46for something magical to happen. Tired of believing in fairy tales. Jeremy was here. He loved me. And he

01:53wasn't going anywhere. We got married in a small ceremony at a vineyard outside Sacramento. My parents

02:00cried. His parents cheered. My friends whispered about how lucky I was to find a guy who was so devoted.

02:07But two years into the marriage, the cracks began to show. I became irritable, impatient. He'd ask me if I

02:14wanted to try a new place for dinner. And I'd snap back. You pick. You always pick the boring ones

02:19anyway. He'd offer to take me away for the weekend. And I'd shrug. Sure, if you can plan something more

02:25exciting than the last disaster in Napa. And then came the night I said it. The sentence that changed

02:31everything. It was a Tuesday. Jeremy had just made dinner. His famous chicken Alfredo. He was wearing that

02:38goofy apron I bought him for Christmas that said, husband material. We were sitting at the table.

02:44And he brought up the idea of starting a family. I wasn't in the mood. Work had drained me. And I

02:50felt trapped. By the conversation. By the silence that followed. By the life we had built around

02:56mediocrity. He said, I think we'd be great parents. I scoffed and muttered. I only married you

03:04because the real men weren't available. Silence. The air left the room. The look in his eyes.

03:11Pure devastation. Haunts me even now. He didn't yell. He didn't throw anything. He just looked at me

03:18like I had taken everything good and smashed it right in front of him. And then, quietly, he said,

03:24Wow. Okay. That night, he didn't come to bed. The next morning, he was gone. At first,

03:31I thought he needed space. I called. Texted. He didn't respond. A week passed. Then, too.

03:39Then, I received an envelope in the mail. Divorce papers. I was stunned. For the first time in my

03:45life, I realized I had gone too far. That my honesty was really cruelty in disguise. Months passed.

03:53He moved out of the apartment we once shared. I later heard he transferred to a private sports

03:58therapy clinic in San Diego. Friends stopped giving me updates about him, almost as if they

04:04were ashamed of being associated with me. I didn't blame them. I spiraled a little. Nights became long

04:11and empty. I'd watch videos of our wedding and wonder why I couldn't appreciate the good I had.

04:17I'd scroll through photos of us at Yosemite, on the beach in Santa Monica, laughing in our kitchen,

04:23and feel like a villain in my own story. Then, one day, I bumped into an old mutual friend,

04:29Jessica, at Trader Joe's. She looked hesitant, like she didn't want to talk. But I pressed.

04:36I was starving for any crumbs about Jeremy. She sighed and said,

04:40He's doing really well. He's actually dating someone new. Her name's Amanda. She's a pediatric nurse.

04:47Super kind. They seem really happy together. It hit me like a punch to the stomach. I didn't expect

04:55him to wait for me. But hearing he had found someone better felt like the universe was rubbing

05:00salt in a wound I gave myself. I stalked her Instagram. She was beautiful, sure. But more than

05:07that, she radiated warmth. Photos of her with sick children, holding puppies at an adoption center,

05:13laughing beside Jeremy under a palm tree at some resort. She looked like someone who valued him,

05:20who saw his gentleness as strength, not weakness. For the first time in my life, I didn't feel like

05:26the strong one. I felt small. I had thrown away something that many people pray for every day,

05:33a partner who is kind, reliable, and deeply devoted. One night, I sat down and wrote Jeremy a letter.

05:40I never send it, but I want to share parts of it with you.

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