He once adored me—until marriage turned me into his favorite joke. Public “pranks,” flirty games, and one brutal night at a bar pushed me past my limit. When he introduced me as his sister, I stopped crying and started planning a surprise he’d never laugh off.
Dave used to be the man of my dreams. He’d sneak up behind me while dinner simmered, wrap his arms around my waist, and sway to music only he could hear. He once drove three hours through a thunderstorm just to bring me a slice of key lime pie from the diner we discovered on our second date.
But that man disappeared somewhere between “I do” and our first anniversary. Suddenly, I was married to someone who wielded charm like a scalpel and called cruelty comedy.
It started small. A teasing remark about my looks to a cashier, a wink that made her giggle. If I objected, he’d smirk: “I was just kidding. What happened to your sense of humor?”
So I tried to laugh along. I played the cool wife who didn’t care when his eyes lingered too long on other women, who smiled when he told his friends, “She used to be a knockout. Still is—when she makes an effort.”
But those moments piled up like stones in my chest.
At parties, he’d introduce me as “a friend of a friend.” In grocery stores, he’d pretend to forget my name. To him, every cruel jab was “hilarious.” To me, it was exhausting.
The final straw came at our usual bar. I returned from the restroom to hear the waitress giggling: “Your brother is hilarious.”
Brother. He’d told her I was his sister. Something inside me cracked.
I confronted him: “That’s not funny. It’s humiliating. I’m your wife, not your punchline.”
His grin didn’t falter. “Only insecure women get jealous, babe. I married you. You’ve got nothing to worry about.”
But this wasn’t jealousy—it was disrespect. That night, I made a promise: You’re going to feel what I’ve felt.
When our anniversary arrived, I told him I had a special plan. I took him to the rooftop restaurant where we’d had our first date. Same table, same view. He beamed, thinking romance was back.
Then I slid a white envelope across the table. Inside: notarized divorce papers.
On the front, a note: “You said only insecure women get jealous. So this must be what a confident woman looks like.”
For once, he was speechless.
He called, left voicemails, sent rambling texts about how I was “overreacting.” I never replied.
Now I live in a quiet apartment with sunlit floors and music I choose. I sleep diagonally across the bed, eat ice cream for dinner, and laugh only when something’s truly funny.
When people ask what happened to my marriage, I just smile: “I realized I’m funnier without him.”
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