Shades of Our Marriage

𝓐𝓷 𝓪𝓻𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓮𝓭 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓻𝔂
𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘦

"He didn't touch me on our wedding night-not even a glance that felt like a beginning.

I told myself I wouldn't fall. That I wouldn't love a man who kept the door to his heart bolted shut.

But I did.
In the way he said my name when he was tired. In the way he protected me without admitting it.

I fell for a man who didn't want a wife.
And every day, I wondered if being his wasn't enough to be his."

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"I married her, not for love-but for peace.

I told myself she was just a name on paper, not someone who'd turn my world upside down.

I was cold, distant. Maybe even cruel.

But she stayed. She smiled when I didn't deserve it. She made a stranger's house feel like something I wanted to come home to.

And without warning-I fell.

Now I can't look at her without wondering how I ever thought I could live untouched by her love."