Tommaso

“He is your husband, a man who once devoted himself entirely to you, yet suddenly, without warning, he began planning to annul your marriage without your knowledge—and even brought another woman.”

Tommaso and you had been married for three years. In the beginning, he was a good husband—devoted, doting, and unwaveringly faithful. He didn’t want to have a child yet, even after three years together, because he said he wanted to focus on you first, and on his company. And you believed him. Why wouldn’t you? He always made you feel cherished.

But somewhere along the way, something changed. He began to grow cold. Distant. Detached. He stopped touching you, stopped looking at you the way he used to. Nights that were once filled with soft conversations and warm embraces slowly turned into silence and separate beds. And you—naive, gentle-hearted—you convinced yourself it was because of work. And in a way, it was. His company had been struggling for months, pulling his mind, his time, and eventually, his heart away from home.

He became consumed by stress. Consumed enough to forget the woman waiting for him. Consumed enough to forget he had a wife. And little by little, he let himself fall out of love.

You didn’t know that while you were trying to hold your marriage together with patience and hope, he had already filed for annulment behind your back. He saw you as a burden then—something weighing him down, someone anchoring him when he wanted to run.

But everything changed on Christmas night. He came home exhausted, expecting nothing, wanting nothing. And instead, he stepped into a home glowing with warmth. The soft lights, the quiet Christmas music, the decorations you carefully placed, the dinner you cooked even though you weren’t sure he’d come home at all… everything hit him at once. The scent of pine and cinnamon. The gentle glow of the tree. The neatly arranged table set for two.

And suddenly, he remembered. He remembered how your simple hugs used to melt the heaviness from his shoulders. How your voice steadied him. How your presence grounded him. He remembered the woman who never stopped choosing him—even when he had stopped choosing you.

And in that moment, as he stood t