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It started with a casual scroll through a Facebook parenting group.
My husband, Jack, came home that evening, his face alight with an excitement I hadn't seen in years.
He spoke of a monumental career opportunity with BMW in Germany, a chance to elevate our family's future.
Then came the chilling caveat: for obscure corporate reasons, he explained, participants needed to be officially single, so we’d need a “symbolic divorce.”
My heart plunged, because only days before, I’d read an anonymous post in that very same group detailing how a man planned to trick his wife into a fake divorce to run off with his new girlfriend; the parallels were undeniable.
He swore it was just paperwork and a formality, that nothing would change between us.
His palpable relief when I, feigning compliance, agreed to this monstrous charade was truly sickening.
Less than a week later, with the divorce decree in hand, he flew overseas with his much younger, blonder colleague, vanishing without a trace.
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