My Boyfriend Proposed After Just 4 Months of Dating – When I Found Out Why, My Knees Buckled

His expression softened. “I know.”

He kissed my forehead, and I let it go.

I let a lot of things go—vague answers about past relationships, his lack of family, his childhood.

After four months, he proposed over dinner at a restaurant. I looked at him—the man who had gently stepped into the life I had rebuilt from grief and routine—and I said yes.

For the first time in years, I believed I could have everything.