{"id":60521,"date":"2025-05-22T17:02:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T17:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=60521"},"modified":"2025-05-22T17:02:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T17:02:36","slug":"i-planned-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=60521","title":{"rendered":"I planned to\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-526.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-526.png 512w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-526-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Tuesday, I planned to surprise my husband Ben with lunch at work\u2014his favorite, lasagna. But when I arrived, the receptionist looked confused. \u201cBen\u2019s been on leave for two weeks,\u201d she said. My heart sank. He\u2019d told me all week he was working late. The next morning, I followed him, driven by suspicion and fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stopped at my sister Kate\u2019s house. She hugged him warmly, then led him inside. I couldn\u2019t believe my eyes. I called my lawyer, Carla, trembling with betrayal. \u201cGet proof before jumping to conclusions,\u201d she advised. So I returned, watched from outside, and saw them at the kitchen table with papers, looking tense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I snapped photos and called James\u2014Kate\u2019s husband. \u201cI think they\u2019re having an affair,\u201d I said. He told me to come immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I arrived, I heard James confronting them: \u201cJulia thinks you\u2019re together.\u201d Ben replied, \u201cThen she doesn\u2019t know.\u201d Kate added, \u201cThat\u2019s great!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I burst in, heart shattered. \u201cYou traitors! How could you?\u201d Ben reached for me, \u201cJulia, it\u2019s not what you think\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But my world had already crumbled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=60441\">also read&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Tuesday, I planned to surprise my husband Ben with lunch at work\u2014his favorite, lasagna. But when I arrived, the receptionist looked confused. \u201cBen\u2019s been on leave&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60523,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60521\/revisions\/60523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}