My pounding heart mutes any sound in the room and an unfamiliar sickness lurches in the pit of my stomach.  Shaking violently, I close the laptop.  My head swims in the beliefs of who I thought the man I lived with was.  I try, but reality seems too far for me to grasp.  How could he lie to me like this I wonder?  My legs give out and I collapse onto the floor and the tears start pouring. 

A barking dog startles me out of that painful memory of two years ago. I gaze out the window and wonder if he knows how much his lie has affected me.