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Origin Story
The fire that started it all. Note from Vienna:This was once my About Me. It was the first thing I ever wrote for this space. I’ve grown since then. I’ve healed. But this? This still holds the heat of everything that broke me, and the voice that came roaring out of the ash. This is where it begins. It’s the version of me that rose from silence and shadows.The version that no longer tiptoes around the truth.This space is where the healing begins—and I mean all of it. My story starts when I was a child.I experienced trauma in my youth—events that shaped the way I saw myself, the way…
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When They Made Me the Villain to Justify Their Affair
Because rewriting my character was easier than owning their betrayal. Let me tell you something about people who cheat and the ones who help them do it:They don’t want the truth.They want a story. And in order to live inside that story without choking on their guilt, they need a villain.That’s where I came in. I was the wife.The mother.The one holding our home together while he unraveled.But in their story?I had to be the problem.Too angry.Too jealous.Too boring.Too emotional.Too much.Too little.Too something. Because if I were human—if I were loyal, good, patient, and hurting—then they were the bad guys.And that’s a truth they couldn’t bear to carry. So they…