When my sister Beth announced her engagement after meeting someone at a wellness retreat, I was thrilled for her. But as her wedding day approached and she started acting stranger than usual, I knew something was terribly wrong.
Let me tell you about my sister Beth.
She’s always been what I’d call beautifully intense. Two years older than me, Beth is one of those creative, brilliant people who see magic in everything around them.
She reads romance novels like they’re instruction manuals for life and believes with her whole heart that everyone deserves their own fairy tale ending.
Growing up, Beth was the dreamer while I was the practical one.
She’d spend hours writing stories about princesses and knights, while I was doing homework and planning my future career. But that’s what made us such a good team as sisters.
She brought wonder into my organized world, and I helped keep her grounded when her imagination ran wild.
The thing about Beth is that she falls in love fast and hard. Always has.
In high school, she’d meet a guy on Monday and be planning their future together by Friday.
She’d write their names together in her notebooks and start imagining what their wedding would look like.
Most of the time, these crushes burned out quickly, but Beth never lost her faith in true love.
That’s why what happened a few years ago hit her so hard.
Beth had been dating this guy, Marcus, for almost two years. She was completely head-over-heels, talking about marriage, kids, and their dream house. I’d never seen her so happy or so sure about anything.
Then, one day, she came to my apartment sobbing.
She told me Marcus had been cheating on her for months with a coworker.
Not only that, but he’d been telling people that Beth was “too clingy” and “lived in a fantasy world.”
The breakup absolutely shattered her.
Beth, who had always been social and outgoing, completely withdrew from everyone. She stopped calling our parents, barely responded to my texts, and quit the book club she’d been part of for years.
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