I married my high school sweetheart after 15 years together — on our first anniversary, I heard him say, “She still has no idea what I’ve been planning.”

had become tired of waiting.

I felt physically sick.

“Why wait so long to marry me, then?”

Neither of them answered immediately.

That silence gave me the answer before Wesley did.

He had hoped I would sign the property over while we were still dating.

Marriage had been the backup plan.

Fifteen years of my life had been somebody else’s waiting game.

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