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“All good, babe,” he responded, his voice lazy, cheerful and infuriating “I’ve got a business rinned, showing off straight, white veneers

My sto to the bedroos like that and never acknowledged that I actually did it He was used to having so back in this space didn’t increasefor the past five years

It didn’t feel like cheating Not really Not when the wo normal

It wasn’t cheating, no

It was rebirth

One Week Later

Pete hadn’t tried to touch me all week

I was glad about it too I wouldn’t have been able to handle it His faettingme the same way he had for the past five years I usually ca loved it, even asm from penetration

At the start of our relationship, we fucked all the tih of hi busier with his businesses, started co less interested He wasn’t cheating on otten far too coave hi dinner, he was tired, he’d just jacked off in the shower because he thought I wasn’t going to be home until late All kinds of excuses

We fought about it When I had the energy

For the past year, I hadn’t had the energy to fight or to even care

I got used to it because I figured that’s what happened in relationships I had an excellent vibrator thaton hi someone else in our bed until he came home and found us I did that more and more the less attention he paid to me, the more he started to annoy me with the way he wantedmother

I never did it There were plenty of things I still liked about the man He was kind to me, he’d never raise his hand to me, he offered a lifetime of safety and security He’d helped my mother when I had no other options I owed hiiven himseriously