A Lie That Weighed Me Down ...

Since the divorce, my days are filled with quiet moments, just me and the hum of the laptop. One day last week, I was behind on a project deadline but also needed to run errands. Desperate for extra hours at home, I fibbed about being sick over the phone with a client. It felt like such a petty thing to do ... just extending my afternoon by an hour or so. But lying there in bed later that night, replaying it all in my head, it was crushing me. The guilt of even this tiny untruth, how did I let it happen? This morning when the project was due, I confessed everything on a video call and said sorry... It wasn't worth the weight anymore ...