Thanks so much, Klara. I appreciate you reading this and am grateful for your commiserations. It wasn't just a lie of omission. There were secrets - so yes, those were lies of omission - but then there were various stories to try to explain things away, and all the stories couldn't be true at once, so there were those kinds of lies, plus the worst kinds of betrayal in a few significant ways.

Really hard to trust now, for sure ... but I don't want anyone else to pay for someone else's lies and for my having trusted him blindly.

I learned a lot from that relationship, mainly about how I still need to protect myself financially no matter how much I love and trust someone. The other stuff, it hurts and we heal but losing everything I'd worked my whole life to build - that was a massive blow and a huge loss and I'm still recovering from it years later.

thank you so much for reading this, Lovely. I hope you're doing well. 💜