Fractured: the choices he made

"𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒅. 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏. 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒆 - 𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒍 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒅𝒐 𝒖𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕 - 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑰 𝒑𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓."

What would you do if you found out your husband of eighteen years was having an affair?

No, please. Don't answer now.
𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬.
Eighteen years, not eighteen days. We have a history. A family.
There's a long road between suspicion, footprints left in the sand, and the absolutely devastating truth that life as you know it has ended.

I saw it all coming.
Felt it in my bones.

Late nights at work. Sleeping at the office.
I felt the distance - how his eyes couldn't hold my stare anymore.
Secretive texts late at night. Lipstick stains where they didn't belong.
Unfamiliar scents on a man who should always smell like him and me.

𝘏𝘪𝘮 & 𝘮𝘦.

But when a third person enters your marriage...
There's nothing left anymore.

My name is Cecily, and this is the story of how my life was 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥 - and how I survived 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦.