"I started doing everything to earn trust and forgiveness. Over the following months, he would throw me out or I'd leave and go back, leave again and go back again. I lurched from one job to another, often quitting after a few weeks because I was too emotionally wrung out to function. I told elaborate lies to employers about why I was quitting."
"Then, a couple of weeks after another move, this time to Madrid, I met a guy I really liked. But, first, I had to confess so he could judge and decide whether to continue with me. To my surprise, he wasn't fazed at all."
"'Cheating isn't the worst thing you can do,' he said, dismissing in seconds what had haunted me for three years. [...] 'It's the worst thing you can do in a relationship,' I argued. [...] 'But no one died.' And, in that moment, I forgave myself."
"It wasn't about whether or not cheating was the biggest wrong you could do. It was that someone only saw me, not what I'd done, in turn allowing me to finally do the same."
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