{"id":603,"date":"2025-12-13T08:06:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T08:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vibepress.us\/?p=603"},"modified":"2025-12-13T08:06:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T08:06:32","slug":"borrowed-trust-borrowed-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vibepress.us\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"Borrowed Trust, Borrowed Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover aligncenter is-light mycontentblock has-medium-font-size wp-duotone-blue-red\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;min-height:54px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"186\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-198 size-large\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/vibepress.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-04-at-2.47.25-PM-1-1024x186.png\" style=\"object-position:50% 50%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"50% 50%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vibepress.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-04-at-2.47.25-PM-1-1024x186.png 1024w, https:\/\/vibepress.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-04-at-2.47.25-PM-1-300x54.png 300w, https:\/\/vibepress.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-04-at-2.47.25-PM-1-768x139.png 768w, https:\/\/vibepress.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-04-at-2.47.25-PM-1-1536x279.png 1536w, https:\/\/vibepress.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-04-at-2.47.25-PM-1-2048x372.png 2048w, https:\/\/vibepress.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-04-at-2.47.25-PM-1-1320x239.png 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-0 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-cover-is-layout-4d396166 wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center my-cover-title has-ast-global-color-8-color has-pale-ocean-gradient-background has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-217cad01439ae9aff8f7cc80432ea0e0\"><strong>Borrowed Trust, Borrowed Truth<br><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-10c4a2f514aed9a11ff66da227b6b536\">I was borrowing my boyfriend\u2019s phone when a text popped up.<br>Lucy: \u201cHey, Andy! Tonight at 8. Your place?\u201d<br>I froze. With shaky hands, <strong>I opened the message, bracing myself for the worst.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n    atOptions = {\n        'key' : '9e49f4ce267f7bab92bbdb38b733742b',\n        'format' : 'iframe',\n        'height' : 90,\n        'width' : 728,\n        'params' : {}\n    };\n<\/script>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/brillianceremisswhistled.com\/9e49f4ce267f7bab92bbdb38b733742b\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1eb5a8cfdc02e4c36acec18a148cb8b2\">But instead of anger, I was puzzled. I saw pictures of a cheesecake. Not just any cheesecake\u2014homemade, half-eaten, and\u2026 familiar. I\u2019d made that exact cheesecake for Andy last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-56720b37270b6bb2c92653eb0505a2e3\">The texts before the photo were even stranger. Lucy had sent, \u201cMade it again. <strong>Hope yours turned out better this time \ud83d\ude02<\/strong>\u201d Andy had replied, \u201cHaha, still can\u2019t get the crust right. See you tonight!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-eec7341c4186c96294102635c8af0007\">My heart was still racing, but now it wasn\u2019t jealousy\u2014it was confusion. I knew Andy had mentioned a coworker named Lucy once. He said she was in his department and had a \u201cmom vibe\u201d because she baked a lot. But this didn\u2019t feel very \u201cmom vibe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d826b1c7870233ad2699cb73585e013a\">I didn\u2019t want to jump to conclusions. But I also wasn\u2019t going to ignore it. When Andy came out of the shower, I handed him his phone without saying anything. He smiled, kissed my forehead, and sat down next to me like everything was normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-126270d6a182c642a1e3f06b7e369447\">For the rest of the evening, I couldn\u2019t concentrate. He cooked us dinner, told me about his day, even massaged my shoulders while we watched a movie. He seemed normal. Too normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-33131dc82c493eedd243e8bd2751632e\">I didn\u2019t bring it up that night. I waited. Sometimes the truth reveals itself if you just stay quiet long enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8ad212b201231ff39553badd861de937\">The next morning, I told him I had an early meeting and left before him. Instead, I parked two blocks away and walked to his building. I knew it was crazy. I knew I could just ask him. But something deep in my gut told me not to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c8efd39405388929b1bf480f9e565da0\">At 7:50 PM that night, I drove back and parked down the street from Andy\u2019s apartment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-97d0e0686b2adc1884f8744f16a7c1db\">At exactly 8:02, a woman walked up and rang his buzzer. She was tall, wearing jeans and a puffy jacket, holding what looked like a foil-covered tray. Cheesecake? She didn\u2019t look like a \u201cmom vibe.\u201d She looked\u2026 familiar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-967f0a4c75ef5afaf83743cd6e056404\">I watched as Andy buzzed her in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d5504bfb9d4eee80ad9aa8fc4f3c7c03\">I sat there for 15 minutes, heart pounding. Then I drove home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1d61c29336c5a6d7fdd3d51adf91bb53\">But I didn\u2019t cry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-24b235fe340ecac55476ee3bc263c1fb\">I started digging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6d6828ca15b4ad6016a612c0a0aef7b9\">A week later, I finally had enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f805e9bc052f2a9e295031767cb11033\">Lucy wasn\u2019t just a coworker. <strong>She was his ex-girlfriend. From college.<\/strong> They\u2019d dated for two years and broke up \u201cmutually\u201d before he moved to the city. She had apparently gotten a job transfer and started working in his department a month ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d079b2b7d4c49957fe2e4f6c822ee697\">The kicker? They didn\u2019t tell anyone they\u2019d dated. Not even HR. Which meant they could technically see each other again and no one would raise an eyebrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-83e005228c2a3bc5d147b1c6cd574f9f\">I didn\u2019t confront him right away. Instead, I waited until the weekend. I invited him over to my place and acted completely normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-88b3d76aec2f840cb3b294af8c98ddcb\">We ate dinner, watched reruns of Friends, and laughed like always. Then I asked him\u2014casually\u2014how Lucy was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1dfb69638c7db84a0fc630fb9995e387\">He blinked. \u201cLucy?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-57f8ca89ca59d3579056cb88f2d267c7\">\u201cYeah,\u201d I smiled. \u201cYour coworker. You said she makes good cheesecake.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-fb4b0e0ba72693e4ede701fbde6d8f76\">He gave a small shrug. \u201cOh, yeah, she brought some last week. I barely touched it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6598ca5219a540743e8c108d6eba3205\">Lie #1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-48c8f82d0374785baedd36c026316ffe\">\u201cSo you don\u2019t hang out with her outside work?\u201d I sipped my tea. My heart was beating so fast I thought it would show through my chest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1e9f72a8f6234b188f48d08d0d90d1aa\">He hesitated. \u201cNot really. Just sometimes the group goes out for drinks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-47e13bf6ff97e53a0f533bc6dddbba1d\">Lie #2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d5ca410e2682e251a13a466b1da5d5b5\">I nodded. \u201cDo you usually invite coworkers to your apartment at 8 PM?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d459ee4d1bbe43825d28bd227951e343\">He went pale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-83a0363cba5e7eb7a1b79c045a3d3f83\">I sat back and folded my arms. \u201cI saw her go in, Andy. I saw her bring the cheesecake. I know who she is.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2748db78c7fa442fa7be0f6bd284ed3a\">He rubbed his face and let out a shaky breath. \u201cIt\u2019s not what you think.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3eaaacdbcef813e4829363293d5d8d55\">I didn\u2019t say anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f5e104271c42828325dabd86595a0b57\">He looked up at me. \u201cI swear, I didn\u2019t sleep with her. She just\u2026 she moved here, and we\u2019ve been talking. I didn\u2019t want to lie. I just\u2026 I didn\u2019t know how to explain it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a5a1024381599b91c173b3b37193ec88\">\u201cSo you didn\u2019t tell me you\u2019re hanging out with your ex in private, late at night, because\u2026 what? You were scared I\u2019d be mad?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-928c64b6094fd3a9e512f3c1ce1049b3\">\u201cYes,\u201d he whispered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5fd2701e6fa21ea22b9de182f1096e75\">\u201cYou should be glad I\u2019m not mad,\u201d I said quietly. \u201cI\u2019m just disappointed. You lied. That\u2019s worse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-34ae9e7cfc8e26d0ef4b08d4ca4956ae\">He didn\u2019t fight. He didn\u2019t cry. He didn\u2019t even apologize properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e4bcd979055e9b887ea945ed19ea3ad0\">So I told him to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-48f8fc7fcaaf62d405254f5ebd54c5e4\">And he did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9e4e4eddd597f9141755936c2cfd9b15\">The days after were hard. It wasn\u2019t a huge betrayal\u2014nothing physical happened, at least not that I could prove\u2014but it felt like emotional cheating. And that was enough for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5d9c2d6c957e4d4a6f61448d8d8649d8\">I kept going back and forth, wondering if I overreacted. Maybe I should\u2019ve given him a second chance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-23a211e4df76d99b32eb6ef699df14e1\">Until I got a message from Lucy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b80747d3e3739353c8af8cd7a2e73781\">It was short.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e24854433773e9ebd0b3dfa0f73e579e\">\u201cHey, I didn\u2019t know you were with Andy. I\u2019m sorry if anything I did crossed a line. We reconnected a few weeks ago and I didn\u2019t think it was serious between you two. He told me you were on a break.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-fddb2ec898e3fa19e2a753fcb9434306\">On a break?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7fd3dbc47a1422412ba06c24d1f19e66\">We were not on a break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-83378807cf2f2dd6c078217a06908bb9\">That was the moment I knew I made the right choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d8f73833eac97ea0a10f506e142fa001\">But here\u2019s where it got interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9b9d7ae267bcc37e8f99515f93a43318\">About two months later, I was at a caf\u00e9 downtown when I ran into someone unexpected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e0cdd231fe209855ef737cb2e48aa956\">His name was Aaron. We\u2019d gone to college together, had a few classes, even worked on a group project once. We weren\u2019t close, but we always got along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a60792ec2ba4644bf6e7757cd8e044e4\">He spotted me first. \u201cHey! No way\u2014it\u2019s you!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-99a68182d73f58a56419f5f14c9b028a\">We talked for twenty minutes. Turned out he\u2019d just moved back to the city after working abroad for a while. He was looking for familiar faces. I gave him my number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-20ff173aa607327881169ffdd5c9fb53\">We started texting. Nothing flirty, just catching up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ed114cab996abf64cba9fb4a12666c58\">A few weeks later, he asked if I wanted to grab coffee. I said yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b1cb72855edfe5ee83657573224783ca\">That coffee turned into lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ae7a7d953880e99b131a4e15260a4e21\">Then another lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9572869c1245ebc1bf65156108e3b07c\">Then dinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6a8ea52072bfc1c2e562260cfc588a90\">Aaron was kind. Thoughtful. Calm. The opposite of flashy or dramatic. He didn\u2019t play games. And he asked about my past. When I told him about Andy, he just nodded and said, \u201cThat must\u2019ve really hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c605d2e4f0ee969d8f5df2a044582b4c\">He didn\u2019t try to fix it. He just listened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-58202174db7213929e5267004dd4daa4\">That\u2019s when I realized I had spent the last two years with someone who never really saw me. Andy loved the idea of me. The low-maintenance, supportive girlfriend who baked cheesecake and didn\u2019t ask too many questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-77dd546c8be559d1bcd14f537bec1844\">But Aaron? He noticed things. Like how I liked to eat my toast diagonally. How I hummed when I was focused. How I hated when people interrupted me mid-sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b5b7d824cc1c91662d837d46ef4901d3\">He never made me feel paranoid or insecure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-76c40a343d4307b507a3828ee18bf23d\">Six months later, we were officially a couple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5dee0b9c5c03c8e09655c3735350cb96\">And that\u2019s when the final twist came.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-61bc0db2b6edfaa9b2b2f2f7b2255585\">Andy texted me. Out of the blue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-baa1c34b146082d69d0250e5a3f63d8b\">\u201cHey. I saw you with someone the other day. I guess you moved on. I just wanted to say I\u2019m sorry for everything.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-04dc03cfd24197b2dcd157cef70bf247\">I stared at the message for a long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-111601af140a993211e02a9187f7954c\">Then another came.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0cc4ceee0b0a2c9b0035be577faccea4\">\u201cYou were the best thing that ever happened to me. I messed it up. Just wanted you to know that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a9dbf0e910b35c79a7f10f8cfae732bf\">It didn\u2019t make me angry. It didn\u2019t make me nostalgic. It just made me\u2026 grateful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1bd7e31ac36431f43a4e2984207d584e\">Because that whole situation\u2014with Lucy, the lies, the cheesecake\u2014it led me here. To someone who respected me enough to tell the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-22779a33853068ab60b2459f77b2d3cf\">I didn\u2019t reply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a1d6bfc1ad6e81d8d5d9721a3d45e8cb\">Some people don\u2019t deserve closure in the form of a response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e39e1977485b0883919752436ab3771a\">Sometimes, your silence is the closure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a069c860df9739856919a13819c6aedf\">Now, almost a year later, I still think about that day I borrowed Andy\u2019s phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-dea439286a42302458267093c05fa7a1\">At the time, it felt like the beginning of the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-44a7d843c638d08e2068983e6eb7b95f\">But really, it was the start of something better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1c425285d29101a6a5dced2f4faeaa48\">It taught me that red flags often come wrapped in politeness. That not all betrayals are loud. And that trusting your gut isn\u2019t being paranoid\u2014it\u2019s being wise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7340a82b3f354c34a97d62062c081a0e\">So here\u2019s my advice:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-fa6d6f6bb8766135f4edca36e3cdebc0\">If someone makes you question your worth, even subtly\u2014walk away. Don\u2019t wait for the \u201cbig betrayal.\u201d Pay attention to the little ones. The white lies. The late-night texts. The missing details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4c6980af624c8424cae6b4efb126eb31\">And when someone shows up who makes you feel safe just being you\u2014hold onto them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ba9cd4fad78361879abef08b3a79fdaf\">Because real love doesn\u2019t hide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3ad83b8f63fd5b82afe8edf90df266b5\">It doesn\u2019t sneak around at 8 PM with cheesecake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6028aaa96c979b50998bceec1857559a\">It shows up, tells the truth, and stays for coffee in the morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-8-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1a6e6340be3e15750bc4d5f6f30afc90\"><strong>Thanks for reading. If this story resonated with you, share it with someone who needs to hear it. And don\u2019t forget to like the post\u2014someone out there might need this reminder today.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was borrowing my boyfriend\u2019s phone when a text popped up.Lucy: \u201cHey, Andy! Tonight at 8. Your place?\u201dI froze. 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