Andrea Gunning

If I needed to sleep in, if I wasn't feeling well, he could take the kids to their sporting events and he would always make dinner every night.

It left me able to do the things that were helpful to me.

She felt unbelievably grateful for him.

They weren't even married and he was there for her as a real partner.

It felt like he was helping me and I'm losing it.

That's what it felt like.

I was struggling so much and I just wanted to survive and get through.

He continued to write her love letters, letting her know he wasn't going anywhere.

Here's an excerpt from one of those letters, read by a voice actor.

It was in the middle of her decline that Mike proposed to her.

His timing made the gesture even more significant to Saskia.

He wanted to spend a life with her, even when she was at her lowest.

That meant the world.

She didn't know what she'd do without him.

When Mike suddenly wanted to move up the wedding, it was confusing to her, but she went along with it.

Him wanting to have the wedding quickly felt strange, but I had no reason to doubt his intentions.

He loved her, and she only saw the best in him.

Until that night just before the wedding, when Saskia awoke to find Mike on his laptop.

She saw two bodies on the screen.

Something was off, but she wasn't in a state to understand any of the details.