Morgan

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Okay, this first one I have, it's coming from True Off My Chest.

So it's a subreddit where people can just go and just like shout something crazy into the void.

It's titled, I've been pretending to like my best friend's husband for four years and I'm exhausted.

I don't really know why I'm posting this.

I just need to say it somewhere because I've been holding it in for so long and it's starting to feel heavy.

My best friend of 12 years, let's call her Dana, married this guy in 2021.

And from basically the first time I met him, I knew something felt off.

Not in a dramatic way, nothing I could point to and say, this is the problem.

He's not abusive, he's not cheating as far as I know.

He doesn't do anything that would make a good story.

He's just one of those people who makes every room feel slightly worse.

He talks over Dana constantly, not aggressively, just like her sentences don't fully register to him before he starts his own.

He's one of those guys who has a loud opinion about everything but gets visibly annoyed if anyone pushes back.

He once spent 45 minutes at dinner explaining to me why the city that I grew up in isn't actually that great and seemed genuinely surprised that I wasn't agreeing with him.

Dana seems happy, or at least she says she is, and I believe her.

She lights up around him in ways that I guess I just have to accept that I don't understand.

So I smile at family dinners, I laugh at his jokes, I text him happy birthday every year, I've been doing it for four years, and I'm good at it by now, but it's tiring in a way that I didn't expect.

The worst part is I feel guilty even writing this.