I won’t pretend I’m proud of how it started. He was married, and I knew it. But the more I watched him, the more convinced I became that we were meant to be. I studied everything about his life — what he liked, what made him laugh, what kind of woman he seemed drawn to. I even changed my hair to match his wife’s, convincing myself that if I became what he was used to, he would eventually notice me.

It took time. A lot of time.

But eventually, he did notice.

What began as small conversations turned into something more. Then meetings. Then secrets. After a couple of years, he made the decision I had been waiting for — he left his family. Just like that, he was fully mine. He revolved around me, did everything I asked, and gave me all the attention I had once fought so hard to get.

At first, it felt like victory.

But something strange happened once I had everything I thought I wanted.

The excitement faded. The chase was gone. The man who once seemed strong and desirable now looked different to me. He had walked away from his family, from his responsibilities, from people who trusted him. And slowly, a question began to grow in my mind:

If he could leave them… what would stop him from leaving me?

Then, one evening, reality hit even harder.

I ran into his ex-wife by accident.

She wasn’t angry. She wasn’t bitter. She was calm, holding their child’s hand, moving forward with her life without him. In that moment, I realized something I hadn’t allowed myself to see before.

I hadn’t won anything.

I had built my happiness on someone else’s loss — and on a man who had already proven he couldn’t be loyal.

That was the moment everything changed.

Because the truth is simple: if someone is willing to betray their family for you, they’re capable of betraying you too.

And sometimes the person you fought the hardest to get is the one you should never have wanted in the first place.