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Is it wrong to go on a fake date with my gay best friend to prove a point to my husband
My husband cried for the first time in our marriage after I wore the red dress he bought me to a $500 dinner with my gay best friend. So, I let him walk out without a word. That was eight months ago. Yesterday, his sister texted to ask if I still wanted to be notified when he gets engaged.
My husband gets super jealous whenever I spend time with other guys, which I honestly don’t get. A lot of my male friends are good dudes, people I’ve met out at bars who are going through tough times and just need someone to help them out. Sometimes I take them on lunches or walks to be there for them, like a good friend should. I understand that it may sound bad, but these guys are genuine friends of mine, and neither I nor them have any foul intentions.
One of these guys I met is named Alex. Alex is gay and we met at a club. We kind of just got talking and by the end of the night, I could tell we would make great friends. I told my husband about it the next day and he seemed less than thrilled that a guy approached me at a club. But once I said he was gay, my husband seemed okay with it.
I have known Alex for about two years now and I can confidently say he is my best friend in the whole entire world. He spoils me, buys me things, pays whenever we get coffee or lunch and all these other things. This would raise some suspicion in most cases, but he is gay and I believe that.
Well, my husband has been less than happy about it. He has grown to hate Alex the most out of any of my male friends and I cannot understand why. Alex is gay for Christ’s sake.
Whenever I mention Alex, my husband gets annoyed. Literally last week, my husband came home from work and asked me about my day.
I responded by saying that Alex took me to the amusement park and we went to get food. He got mad at it.
He did not yell, but did angrily say that Alex is clearly in love with me.
He asked me what man buys a girl lunch once a week, takes her to amusement parks, buys her shoes, kisses her on the cheek and photos, gets her a Gucci bag for her birthday, has her meet his family and so on without liking her.
Well, this set off a huge argument with my husband where I defended Alex, saying he is just a good friend and he is thankful for how I have helped him and this is his way to repay me for my help.
My husband responded sarcastically, “Repay you by buying you a $700 Gucci bag?” “Yeah, sure.”
The argument escalated and we ended up sleeping in separate rooms for a few nights and not speaking much. A few days later, my husband came to me and apologized, saying he was sorry for losing his cool, but my relationship with Alex makes him uncomfortable and that Alex is clearly not gay, but pretending to be so he can get closer to me.
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My Own Mom Yelled: “YOU’RE JUST A MISTAKE OF MY PAST I WANT TO FORGET.” So I Needed to Take Action..
Three hours ago, I was nobody. A ghost, a girl the world had already buried and forgotten. My own mother had thrown a memorial service, worn black, and cried pretty tears for the cameras. She told everyone I was troubled, unstable, probably dead in a ditch somewhere. And then she took my inheritance and bought herself a mansion.
Three hours ago, I was still that forgotten girl. But right now, right now, I’m standing across the street from that mansion, watching flames lick the windows of her home office. My phone won’t stop buzzing. FBI agents are shouting into radios. Firefighters are running past me with hoses.
And somewhere inside that chaos, my mother is finally understanding what it feels like to lose everything. She wanted to forget me. She called me a mistake. Well, mother, consider this your wakeup call.
But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let me take you back to the beginning. Back to when I was just Trinity Potter, a 19-year-old girl who made the mistake of trusting family. I’m Trinity. I’m 28 now. But this story starts when I was 19. The night before my birthday, the night my life was stolen from me.
I grew up in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Nice town, good schools, the kind of place where people wave at each other and pretend everything is perfect, even when it’s falling apart. My parents divorced when I was 12. And honestly, it was a relief. The fighting had been brutal. The silence between fights even worse.
My dad, Marcus Potter, was a firefighter, the real deal. The kind of man who ran into burning buildings and somehow still made it home to help me with homework. He wasn’t perfect, but he loved me in that simple, steady way that makes you feel safe in the world.
My mother, Diane, was a different story. She was beautiful. I’ll give her that. The kind of beautiful that makes people forgive things they shouldn’t forgive. She had this way of walking into a room and making everyone notice her, making everyone want her approval. I spent most of my childhood trying to earn that approval. Spoiler alert, I never did.
After the divorce, Diane got full custody. She had a better lawyer, a better story, and honestly, a better performance. She cried in court about being abandoned, about struggling to raise me alone.
Never mind that dad paid child support on time every single month. Never mind that he showed up for every school play, every soccer game, every parent teacher conference while she was getting her nails done. The court believed her tears. Courts usually do.
But dad didn’t give up on me. He got every other weekend and he made those weekends count. We’d go fishing or hiking or just sit on his porch and talk about nothing. Those weekends were my oxygen. They kept me sane in a house where I always felt like an inconvenience.
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