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Jun 18, 2025
#redditrelationship #aita #redditstories My Wife Cheated With My Stepdad. Then I Took Everything | Reddit Unheard Stories Welcome to Reddit Unheard Stories – where the darkest betrayals lead to the most unexpected comebacks. In today’s emotional rollercoaster, we follow the jaw-dropping real-life story of Jake Carter, a man blindsided by grief and betrayed by the two people he trusted most — his wife and his stepfather. 💔 From losing his mother to discovering his wife's affair with his own stepdad, this is a tale of raw heartbreak, strategy, and ultimate revenge. But Jake doesn’t just get mad — he gets smart. He exposes them both, ghosts them, and starts a new life thousands of miles away in Colombia. But fate wasn’t done with him yet... ⚖️ When the cheaters least expect it, Jake returns — legally — to take back everything he lost… and then some. If you’re into real stories of betrayal, healing, and unexpected justice — this one’s for you.
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hey everyone welcome to Reddit Unheard
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Stories where we dive into the wild raw
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and real moments of life that hit you
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right in the gut if you're new here
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stick around because today's story is a
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roller coaster it's about love betrayal
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and picking up the pieces when your
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world falls apart
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i'm going to narrate this like I'm
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sitting across from you just telling it
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like it is no fluff so grab a coffee get
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comfy and let's jump into the life of
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Jake Carter a guy who thought he had it
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all until he didn't my name's Jake and
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this is my story i was married to Sarah
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my high school sweetheart we were that
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couple everyone thought would make it
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you know we'd been together since we
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were 16 sneaking kisses behind the
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bleachers dreaming about a big future
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fast forward a few years we're married
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living in a small town and I'm thinking
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life's pretty good
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but 3 years ago everything changed my
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mom Ellen passed away she was my
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everything my cheerleader my confidant
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we'd always had each other's backs
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whether it was her supporting my crazy
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ideas or me helping her with her
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community projects
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losing her left a hole in my heart I
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didn't know how to fill I thought Sarah
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could help me through it she was my wife
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my partner the one who'd promised to
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stick by me through thick and thin but
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grief's a funny thing it doesn't just
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break you it changes the way you see the
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world and it changed the way Sarah and I
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worked together i was struggling no
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doubt there were days I'd just sit there
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staring at old photos of mom feeling
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like I'd lost a piece of myself sarah
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noticed she'd say I seemed down and yeah
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I was losing someone you love isn't
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something you just snap out of no matter
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how much you try now let's talk about
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Tom my stepdad he came into our lives
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about 10 years ago when he married my
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mom tom was a decent guy all things
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considered he wasn't my real dad but he
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stepped up taught me how to drive a
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stick shift showed me how to file taxes
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without losing my mind you know
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practical stuff
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he and mom had a good thing going though
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she could be hard on him sometimes she
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had high standards and Tom didn't always
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meet them but I never thought much of it
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he was family and I trusted him after
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mom passed things started feeling off
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sarah's behavior changed she'd get
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snappy distant like she was carrying
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some secret I wasn't in on i chocked it
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up to me being a mess grieving and all
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i'd have these days where I'd just shut
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down lost in memories of mom sarah would
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get frustrated saying I wasn't present
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enough and yeah I get it grief can make
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you hard to live with but I was trying
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you know I was doing my best to keep it
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together then came the day that flipped
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my world upside down
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sarah was in the bath and her phone
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buzzed with a work text
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i'd replied to her work messages before
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she ran a small catering business and I
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knew the drill no big deal right I pick
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up her phone send a quick reply and let
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her know I handled it but then ping
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another message pops up it's from
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someone named T just a single letter no
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last name weird the message starts with
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"Hey Sunny." My heart stops sunny that's
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my nickname for Sarah i came up with it
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when we were dating back when we'd stay
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up all night talking about our dreams
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nobody else calls her that so why is
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this tea using it I know I shouldn't
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have but I opened the chat my hands were
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shaking my stomach twisting the message
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was from this tea guy apologizing for
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texting so late saying he couldn't stop
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thinking about her i scroll up and it's
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worse than I thought there's deleted
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messages some one-time view stuff but
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enough was there to make it clear
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sarah was cheating
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my mind's racing trying to make sense of
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it who's T And then it hits me like a
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freight train t
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my stepdad i felt like I couldn't
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breathe my wife and my stepdad it was
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like something out of a bad movie i
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wanted to scream to throw the phone
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across the room but I held it together i
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needed proof something solid because my
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brain was telling me I had to be wrong
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there's no way this was real so I came
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up with a plan i texted T from Sarah's
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phone pretending to be her told him to
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meet me the next day at this quiet
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little cafe in town at a specific table
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wearing a blue jacket i made it specific
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so there'd be no mistake
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then I deleted the messages to cover my
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tracks and waited the next day I'm at
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the cafe heart pounding ready to
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confront whoever shows up i'm hoping
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praying it's not Tom maybe it's some
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other guy named Trevor or Tanner but
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deep down I knew and sure enough there
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he is walking in with a blue jacket
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looking nervous as hell it's Tom my
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stepdad
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he's glancing around probably expecting
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Sarah but instead he sees me i walk up
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casual as I can manage and say "Hey Tom
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what are you doing here?" He's sweating
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stammering about meeting a friend then
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bolts out the door like he's seen a
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ghost i didn't confront him right then i
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couldn't i was too angry too hurt i went
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home my head spinning trying to figure
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out what to do that night I sat Sarah
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down and asked her straight up about her
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relationship with Tom she got all
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defensive saying I was being paranoid
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that I didn't know what I was talking
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about i played dumb said I heard Tom was
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seeing someone and I was cool with it he
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deserved to move on right She told me to
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leave it alone that it was his private
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business her voice was shaky and I could
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see the guilt in her eyes she knew I was
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on to her i wasn't going to let this
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slide i needed hard evidence something
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undeniable
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so I started paying closer attention
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checking her phone when she wasn't
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looking piecing together the puzzle and
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yeah I found it screenshots of their
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texts flirty messages plans to meet up
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it was all there clear as day my wife
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and my stepdad were sneaking around
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behind my back and it made me sick i
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felt betrayed not just by Sarah but by
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Tom who I'd trusted like family it was
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like they'd both stabbed me in the back
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i decided to confront them both but I
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wanted to do it on my terms i invited
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them over for dinner acting like
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everything was fine you should have seen
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them sitting at the table barely
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touching their food looking like they
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knew the hammer was about to drop after
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dessert I couldn't hold it in anymore i
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said all right let's talk about the
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elephant in the room sarah played
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confused tilting her head like she had
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no clue tom just stared at his plate
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like a kid caught stealing i pulled out
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my phone showed them the screenshots and
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watched their faces fall tom started
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first mumbling apologies saying he never
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meant to hurt me he went on about being
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vulnerable after mom's death how he and
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Sarah just connected i wasn't buying it
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when he mentioned mom I lost it i yelled
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told him he disrespected her memory that
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he was a coward for sneaking around
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sarah jumped in saying our marriage was
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struggling that Tom was just there for
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her there for her are you kidding me I
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was screaming now they were crying and
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I'm pretty sure the neighbors heard
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every word by the end of the night we
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agreed to go our separate ways they left
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and I was alone in the house feeling
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like my life had just imploded the weeks
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after that were brutal my job
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performance tanked i could barely focus
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in our small town rumors spread like
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wildfire people knew me knew my mom and
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now they knew about the affair the shame
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was suffocating
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sarah tried calling a couple times but I
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hung up on her tom showed up at the
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house once begging me to forgive Sarah
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saying it was all his fault i told him
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to get out that he'd not only betrayed
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me but spit on everything my mom stood
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for i was done with both of them a
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friend of mine Emma helped me see things
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clearly she was the one who introduced
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me to Sarah years ago and she felt awful
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about how things turned out we talked
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for hours and she pointed out something
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I hadn't thought about sarah and I never
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signed a prenup the house we lived in it
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belonged to Sarah's family her aunt
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specifically they'd let us stay there
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rentree but now I was worried Sarah
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might pull the plug and kick me out emma
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asked what I wanted to do and I realized
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I couldn't stay in that town anymore
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everyone knew my business and the
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whispers were killing me that's when I
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made the craziest decision of my life i
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moved to Colombia
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yeah Colombia why My mom lived there for
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a year when she was younger and she
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always talked about it like it was this
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magical place she'd tell stories about
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the vibrant culture the warm people the
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way it changed her perspective i needed
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that i needed a fresh start somewhere
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nobody knew my name or my story so I
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sold most of my stuff got an online job
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that let me work from anywhere and
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booked a one-way ticket i ghosted Sarah
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and Tom ignored their calls and left it
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all behind colombia was a shock to the
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system but in a good way
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i landed in Bogota found a small
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apartment and started figuring things
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out the language was a hurdle my high
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school Spanish was rusty to say the
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least but I got by i worked as an
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assistant at a law firm handling calls
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and redirecting cases it was tough at
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first especially with the language
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barrier but my co-workers were patient
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and I got the hang of it slowly I
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started feeling like myself again the
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city was alive music everywhere street
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food that blew my mind people who smiled
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like they meant it i was rebuilding
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piece by piece but the past has a way of
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creeping up on you a friend back home
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Mike reached out with some news
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apparently Sarah was in a bad spot she'd
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gotten tangled up in some financial mess
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spreading rumors that I'd abandoned her
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to live some lavish life abroad she even
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leaned into this new evangelical thing
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acting like she was a saint while
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painting me as the villain classic mike
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said she was claiming I owed her support
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that I'd left her destitute
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destitute After everything she did I
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wasn't falling for it then came the
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bombshell tom had passed away he'd moved
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to Greece apparently trying to start
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over like I did found dead alone far
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from home i didn't feel much when I
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heard i'd made peace with not forgiving
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him thanks to some therapy sessions that
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helped me let go of the anger i didn't
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hate him anymore but I wasn't about to
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cry over him either his family wanted me
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to come to the funeral but I passed that
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chapter was closed here's where things
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get wilder turns out Tom left everything
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to Sarah in his will cars a couple
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houses an apartment even a farm outside
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town i was floored she didn't deserve a
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scent but then Mike dropped another
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bombshell since Sarah and I never
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finalized our divorce I was still
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legally tied to her that meant I had a
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claim to half of everything
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i got in touch with a lawyer this guy
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named Daniel who was sharp as attack he
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said we could fight this using Sarah's
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infidelity to argue for an equitable
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split so we went to court the trial was
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intense sarah's lawyer tried to paint
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her as the victim but Daniel was
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relentless he brought up the affair
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showed the evidence and made it clear
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she'd violated our marriage when the
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judge ruled in my favor I swear I could
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have high-fived the whole courtroom
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sarah lost it all every last asset her
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face red as a tomato like she couldn't
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believe she'd been caught
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i walked away with enough to secure my
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future and she was left with nothing but
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her lies colombia became my home after
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that I climbed the ladder at the law
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firm then moved to a supermarket job
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eventually becoming a branch manager i
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dated a bit enjoyed the single life and
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started to heal the pain of Sarah's
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betrayal faded and I found myself
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smiling more living more i still think
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about my mom and I'm working every day
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to make her proud even from a distance
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now let's shift gears to another story
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because I'm not the only one who's been
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through the ringer meet Ethan a guy who
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fell hard for a girl named Mia when they
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were teenagers
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they got married at 20 ready to take on
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the world ethan was working two jobs a
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store stalker from 3:00 a.m to 7:00 a.m
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then an admin gig at the police
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department from 8:00 a.m to 5:00 p.m
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on top of that he was going to college
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part-time to finish his degree why
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Because he wanted to give Mia and their
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soon-to-be kid the best life possible
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when their son Liam was born Ethan's
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schedule got even crazier classes on
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Tuesdays and Saturdays barely any sleep
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but he was determined mia worked as a
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nurse's aid and Ethan's mom helped watch
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Liam when they were both at work it was
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tough but they were a team or so Ethan
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thought one weekend things boiled over
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mia was pissed that Ethan wouldn't take
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a break from studying to hang out with
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her and Liam they'd been fighting a lot
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about his schedule his focus on school
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everything
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that Monday Ethan's working on a
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research paper when Mia starts picking a
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fight
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he snaps tells her to stop acting like a
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kid and then she drops a bomb i hate you
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Ethan i'm in love with someone else
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ethan's world stops mia admits she's
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been emotionally involved with a janitor
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at her hospital some guy named Chris it
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started innocently compliments lunches
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in the cafeteria but it escalated she
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was bad mouthing Ethan even kissing this
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guy behind his back ethan's heart breaks
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he feels like his whole life's been a
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lie he grabs a suitcase tells Mia to get
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out and when she refuses he picks her up
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carries her to the car and locks the
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door behind her
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she ends up at her parents' place and
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Ethan's left alone trying to process it
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all the next day Ethan's on a mission he
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drops Liam off with his mom and heads to
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a lawyer friend Mr thompson who went to
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school with his dad ethan's done he
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wants a divorce ASAP
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thompson tries to get him to slow down
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but Ethan's resolute he files the papers
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that day determined to take control of
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his life mia calls demanding to see Liam
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ethan's not having it she's too unstable
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he agrees to a supervised visit at a
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park with his mom there to keep things
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civil mia shows up looking rough like
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she hasn't slept or eaten in days over
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the next few weeks they meet like this
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but Ethan's careful he's not letting her
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take Liam alone not after what she did
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then things take a turn
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mia's mom who's always hated Ethan hires
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a lawyer to sue for full custody of Liam
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ethan's furious he'd offered to split
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custody 50/50 but they're playing dirty
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so he fights back arguing Mia's mental
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state makes her unfit in court Mia's
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lawyer paints her as a loving mom who's
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turned her life around but Ethan's
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lawyer brings the receipts evidence of
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her affair her erratic behavior the
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judge grants joint custody with the
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condition that Mia keeps up with therapy
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ethan's relieved but cautious he wants
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what's best for Liam but he doesn't
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trust Mia
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then Mia pulls a stunt that floors him
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she shows up at his place begging to
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reconcile saying they should move back
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in together ethan stunned after
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everything her cheating her lies she
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thinks they can just pick up where they
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left off
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he shuts the door in her face done with
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her drama that's when Clare comes into
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the picture clare's a coworker Ethan met
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at the police department and she's a
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breath of fresh air they clicked
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instantly like they'd known each other
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forever she's been there for him through
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all this listening supporting making him
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laugh again one night after Mia's stunt
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Clare's there when Ethan gets home she
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wraps him in a hug tells him he deserves
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better and he knows she's right with
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Clare he's found something real
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something worth building mia's a distant
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memory now and Ethan's ready to move
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forward so what's the takeaway here Jake
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and Ethan We've both been through hell
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betrayed by the people we trusted most
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kicked when we were already down but we
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didn't let it define us i found a new
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life in Colia a place where I could heal
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and grow
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ethan found Clare someone who lifts him
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up instead of tearing him down life's
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too short to stay stuck in the pain you
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take the hit you feel it but then you
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get up and keep going because at the end
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of the day you're stronger than the
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people who tried to break you that's it
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