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Chapter 46

Penulis: Ruby
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-02-06 14:55:00

Sarah P.O.V

Sometimes, we need to accept reality and stop wasting our time on the wrong people. I’m okay with sacrificing my time to make a relationship work, but in the end, there should be positive outcomes. Like Adrian, I deserve a stable life. He can’t expect me to be a dutiful wife when all he did was find flaws in me while expecting me to overlook his own. It was a constant, subtle chipping away at my self-worth, a drip, drip, drip of criticism that eroded my confidence. I was constantly walking on eggshells, trying to anticipate his moods, his unspoken expectations. It was exhausting.

It’s been five days since I moved back to my mother’s house. Unlike those cliché stories, I didn’t lock myself in a room and cry over my broken relationship. Instead, I continued with my normal routine because I can’t afford to be weak over a marriage that was doomed from the start. I refuse to drown myself in misery. I’d spent too long already submerged in it.

From the beginning, it was clear tha
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