{"id":6688,"date":"2025-12-29T00:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T00:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=6688"},"modified":"2025-12-29T00:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T00:06:07","slug":"he-said-dont-make-a-scene-my-heart-shattered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=6688","title":{"rendered":"He Said \u201cDon\u2019t Make A Scene.\u201d My Heart Shattered."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stood in Brody\u2019s office as utensils clattered to the floor, shocked to see my husband openly flirting with his young secretary. When I confronted him, he dismissed it as \u201cwork\u201d even as I saw his hand slide up her skirt. \u201cDon\u2019t make a scene,\u201d he said, as if my heartbreak was inconvenient.<\/p>\n<p>My carefully packed lunch lay ignored. I asked how long it had been going on, but he refused to talk. The secretary pleaded it wasn\u2019t what it looked like, but I wasn\u2019t fooled. When I accused him of cheating, Brody stood between us, telling me to calm down and that I didn\u2019t understand. Then she handed me a folder with medical diagrams, saying he didn\u2019t know how to explain. I was left even more confused and hurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>I stood in Brody\u2019s office as utensils clattered to the floor, shocked to see my husband openly flirting with his young secretary. When I confronted <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=6688\" title=\"He Said \u201cDon\u2019t Make A Scene.\u201d My Heart Shattered.\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6689,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6688\/revisions\/6689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}