I told my sister my ex cheated on me.
That was the lie.<\/p>\n
The truth is harder to admit\u2014he didn\u2019t cheat on me<\/em>. He cheated with<\/em> me. And in the end, he said he couldn\u2019t keep doing it to his wife anymore.<\/p>\n I knew from the beginning that he was married. He didn\u2019t hide it, and neither did I. But somehow, we both convinced ourselves that what we had was different\u2026 justified\u2026 temporary. We ignored the reality because it was easier than facing what it said about us.<\/p>\n When it ended, it didn\u2019t feel like I lost something real\u2014it felt like everything I had avoided finally caught up with me.<\/p>\n I couldn\u2019t bring myself to tell my sister. I told her he cheated because it made me the victim. Because it was easier than admitting I had been part of something that hurt someone else. I knew the truth would change how she saw me.<\/p>\n And honestly\u2026 she would have every right to.<\/p>\n The hardest part isn\u2019t that it ended. It\u2019s living with the guilt of who I was in that situation\u2014and knowing I chose it anyway.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not proud of it. But maybe the first step now is being honest, at least with myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I told my sister my ex cheated on me.That was the lie. The truth is harder to admit\u2014he didn\u2019t cheat on me. He cheated with me. And in the end, he said he couldn\u2019t keep doing it to his wife anymore. I knew from the beginning that he was married. He didn\u2019t hide it, and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5889,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5887\/revisions\/5889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}