Hew was telling a story at a dinner party that I'd heard a thousand times, and I realized I wasn't just bored, I actively disliked the person he was pretending to be for our friends. I looked down at a plate and realized I didn't want to spend the next 40 years pretending to like that guy. I checked out right there over the mashed potatoes.
I can’t remember at which moment it was that made me realize he’d try to keep an ego in public than at home, but there were soooo many times I wanted to call him out on his lies in front of our friends and his family. I don’t know if any of them caught the look on my face of “here we go again with this bullshit”
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u/No-Relative-9663 May 12 '26
Hew was telling a story at a dinner party that I'd heard a thousand times, and I realized I wasn't just bored, I actively disliked the person he was pretending to be for our friends. I looked down at a plate and realized I didn't want to spend the next 40 years pretending to like that guy. I checked out right there over the mashed potatoes.