Though, I didn't know that his quiet tenderness was to brush me off, I still felt happiness in this marriage.

Waiting for him to come home at night and waking up in the morning to find him sleeping beside me, those simple moments had always made me happy.

It was a happiness completely caught me up in the marriage.

As the facade was now torn apart, there was no going back. Now, I had started feeling that my past self was laughably naive.

He was just placating me, ...