'I looked at girlfriend's internet history and it changed our entire relationship'
The mad admitted the time brought a lot of "uncertainty" and "silence," and they "both wanted to make it work," but there was "doubt" that "lingered". He wrote: "One day, we were on a bus and she didn't have her phone, but she wanted to show me a Tumblr post she had saved for me. So she logged into her Tumblr account on my phone and showed it to me. That was it. I didn't think much of it at the time." But later, when he got home, he noticed that she'd forgotten to log out, and was about to do it himself when curiosity got the better of him.
He admitted that he noticed a "one" next to the drafts tab, and he "opened it". "I had no intentions beyond that, just curiosity," he said. "We both write from time to time, because we are into books and poetry and stuff," but what he saw next really shocked him.
He said inside the draft, there were a few lines that "hurt" him and had him asking himself questions about whether she actually loved him.
She wrote something along the lines of: "Oh, but how do I love you, when there is none of me left? My soul is shattered, and I do not know what to do with the remains."
The man said: "I logged out of her account. I didn't say anything. But I couldn't shake the feeling. I tried, but it just kept hurting the whole day."
Feeling heartbroken, but persisting with their relationship, he shared that the following day was a "special occasion" for the pair of them, saying that they usually write letters to each other, "filled with feelings".
He wrote: "I gave her mine. She smiled softly and said she didn't write one this time. Instead, she handed me a book: Six of Crows. One of the two books we had exchanged back when we were just starting to fall for each other. It had emotional weight. She told me to open it once I got home. So I did.
"There was a tiny piece of paper tucked into the front, asking me to turn to a specific page. Page 147. I flipped to it and found a passage she had underlined: 'Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favourite flower, your favourite song, your favourite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.'
"And just after that, the character Inej thinks: 'I'm not sure I have a heart to give anymore, Papa.' But right there, next to that line, my girl, in her beautiful handwriting, had written: 'But when you do find the one, the shattered remains of it will stitch themselves back together and will only beat to his name'," he wrote.
He admitted that he "sat there in silence, crying" after putting the book down to process what she'd written.
"She never knew I read that draft, and I still haven't told her," he said. "But in that moment, I knew. She loved me. Entirely. In her own quiet, aching way. It's been a long time, but ever since then, our relationship has only grown stronger. I love her so much."
In the comments, someone joked: "My husband looked me in the eyes, smiled, then proceeded to unclog the toilet for me, and that's how I knew he loved me in his own quiet, aching way. Congratulations on also finding true love".
Another shared: "My friend realised she loved her boyfriend (now husband) when he was helping her dad install a solar panel on the roof of her house and she thought 'Oh I'd be really sad if he fell and got hurt' lmao".
Another Redditor wrote: "This is so beautiful! I'm glad you have each other and I hope you continue to cultivate a wonderful and healthy relationship." While someone else said: "Well, that was a plot twist. A good one!"
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