The first year after we got married was quieter than I expected.
Not peaceful—just… quieter.
Phones stopped ringing. Invitations stopped coming. People who used to show up without asking suddenly needed notice, then distance, then nothing at all. It wasn’t dramatic. No big arguments. Just absence, spreading slowly until it became the new normal.
At first, I kept waiting for …
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