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Is Speculation Making You Falsely Accuse Others?
Imagine the one you are accusing is the falsehood in your own head.
SUSPICIOUS SUSPECT
She glares at him from across the room. He stares intensely at his phone. There is tension in the air between the two. He has never been so adept to recognize her emotions. She has never seen irregular text messages after 1130PM at night. The past few nights both know rest is not for the restless. Tossing and turning her emotions, she pretends to reposition herself. Her bedtime is early. So is his. Dawn calls them early. Before the crack of dawn, they rise to a routine of children, breakfast, and work preparation.
Every minute of sleep counts. He’s interrupting her sleep. Why all the texting near midnight!?
She can’t take it anymore. The anxiety of what he is doing. Never telling her. Never speaking about it. Never acknowledging. For the past month, her husband developed a new routine of late night texting, muffled conversations and constant checks. This behavior only starts when he thinks she is asleep.
She moves and gently opens her eyes. He catches her movement and quickly changes the view of his screen. She can’t see now. He looks nervous. As if she is going to confront him.