The Overlap - by Nimmat

I didn’t find out the way I thought I would.No confrontation.No confession.No moment where everything shattered at once.Just something small.Something easy to missif I wasn’t already paying attention.A name that felt too familiar.A pause that lasted a second too long.A shift in youI had been trying not to notice.And the worst part is…I think a part of me already knew.I just didn’t want to be right.Because believing itwould mean acceptingthat everything I thought we were…was already changing. <img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/IMG_4375.jpeg"/> And suddenly,everything I had been ignoringstarted making sense.You weren’t distant.You were distracted.You weren’t confused.You had already made spacefor something else.Just not for me.You still showed up.Still spoke to me.Still looked like you were there.But now I see it clearly,you were dividing yourself…between what we hadand what you were starting somewhere else.And I was the only onewho didn’t know. <img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/IMG_4377.jpeg"/> That’s the part that stays with me.Not even the liesbut how easily you made room for someone elsewhile I was still standing right theretrying to make room for you.Do you know what that does to a person?To realize your loyaltywas being given to somethingthat was already being shared?To understand that while you were holding on,someone else was being let inwithout your knowledge?I felt it before I understood it.That quiet discomfort.That unexplainable distance.Now I knowit wasn’t in my head.It was you. <img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/IMG_4376.jpeg"/> I replayed everything.Every word.Every moment.Every “I love you”that I took at face value.And I keep asking myselfwhen did it stop being true?Was it before her?Or because of her?Or was I just the onewho didn’t noticewhen you started leaving mewhile still standing next to me?Because looking back…I can see it.The way your attention shifted.The way I had to start askingfor what used to come naturally.I thought we were going through something.I didn’t knowyou were already replacing me. <img src="/media/inline_insight_image/IMG_4378.jpeg"/> And what hurts the mostisn’t even her.It’s you.You, who looked me in the eyesand chose to staywhile doing everythingthat meantyou had already left.You could have told me.You could have been honest.You could have given methe chance to walk awaywith my dignity still intact.But instead…you let me keep loving youlike I was the only one.While you were giving that same loveto someone else.And that’s what broke me.Not the ending.But the overlap.The part whereI was still yoursand you were alreadysomeone else’s.Honestly, I don’t hate you. I just don’t recognize you anymore.And maybe that’s worse.Because the person I lovedwouldn’t have done this.And the person who did this…was never mine to begin with.

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