Repaid Her, Ignored Me
Language: en
When Ethan's family went bankrupt, I stayed with him in that basement apartment, working three jobs a day to pay off his debts. When he made his comeback, he promised during his proposal to give me a real home. In our third year of marriage, I accidentally saw the deed to our house. The owner's name listed was his first love. He explained with reddened eyes, "This is what I owe her." I nodded and pushed toward him photos of the mountain of debt collection notices that had once covered our entire table in that cramped basement. "You've repaid what you owed her with the house. So what…