"The Way Things Never Were"
At first, it was little things.
The keys weren't where she left them. But maybe she was tired. Maybe she thought she put them on the hook, but really left them on the table. She laughed it off.
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He never yelled—until the very end.
He didn’t hit me.
He didn’t even argue most of the time.
He just… said nothing.
No answers. No reactions. No acknowledgement of how I felt, what I needed, or who I was slowly becoming under the weight of all that silence.