Brook Fisk

But as soon as they got to the mall... I was having a queasy feeling, so I ended up going into the bathroom quite a few times.

At some point, he asked me if I was feeling okay.

And I told him, no, that I had an upset stomach.

His response was just, oh, okay.

And that struck me in that moment as being very odd because he normally would have asked if I needed anything or gotten me a drink or had some follow-up to make sure I was all right.

And in that moment, I remember thinking that I wondered if he was hoping that something was wrong.

And then, of course, I convinced myself to put it out of my mind.

After dinner, he put on my favorite movie and said that he was going to make me a cup of tea for my stomach.

So it was dark in the room.

He brought me the tea.

And when I tasted it, I noticed that it was unusually sweet, which was not how I took my tea.

And he said that he had accidentally put in both sugar and honey, which was odd.

because he always remembered how I took my tea, but I drank it anyway.

And when I got toward the bottom of the cup of tea, I took a sip of it and there was grit in the bottom.

And from being a nurse, I knew that texture was ground up pill.

So I spit it back in the cup and I put the cup down and I said that I had to go to the bathroom.

I went into the bathroom and I put my finger down my throat and then I put a toothbrush down my throat to try to make myself throw up and I couldn't.

And I sat there in the bathroom and I wasn't sure what to do.

I've been dating him for years.

This man loves me.