Cindy

But while that is happening, he was also seeing this other girl.

We had plans to spend New Year's Eve together and just do something low-key, and he...

was communicating with me and then he turned his phone off and I just, something in my gut, I just knew that that meant he was going to be with her.

One thing that I'm so grateful for is my friends because that night was so bad.

The New Year's going into 2023, I couldn't have got through it without my friends.

They really had my back.

And very much last minute got me out of probably the darkest headspace I'd ever been in.

So start of January, him and I caught up and he had told me that he wasn't seeing her anymore.

And I said to him, all right, well, how about we give this one last shot with none of this bullshit, no third parties.

We just try one more time.

I was having a 29th birthday at my house, so it was the first party I'd had in that house.

So I was preparing that.

I had some friends come over before the party to help set up, and he also came over because he didn't know

all of my friends.

During that Christmas, New Year's Eve, where he was spending more time with her, I developed some really, really great friendships with people that are still my ride and dies today.

And so I had this big new group of friends and I guess like it was sort of intriguing to him because

you know, he'd see me so happy, which he hadn't seen for a long time.

And so when this party was quite out of hand, actually, there was a lot of people there and it was good though.

So much love there.

I remember him sitting around the table with all of my friends and they're all being so lovely to him because they don't know the worst parts of our relationship.