I Quit Loving You in Public

Love is a shrine—until it’s a spotlight on what you’ve lost. When I stumbled on Jonathan’s public promise to love someone else forever, taped to the wall of Brooklyn’s trendiest café, I was supposed to be celebrating my promotion—not mourning the end of a decade-long marriage. Everyone in the city is obsessed with their picture-perfect romance, but I know the truth behind the notes: five years of betrayal, heartbreak, and a love that survived everything except reality. Now, with a divorce on the table and my old life stripped away piece by piece, I’m forced to confront the woman who replaced me—and the man I thought I knew. As secrets unravel and old wounds surface, I’m left with a single, impossible question: Can letting go ever truly set you free—or do some loves haunt you long after you walk away?

I was always the girl who loved too much—and got nothing back. Eighty-one confessions, a public heartbreak, and a viral wedding fiasco later, I finally walked away from Jackson Price, the man who never saw me. But letting go isn’t as simple as hitting 'block.' With my new pulled pork shop, a meddling family, and Jackson’s devastating uncle Ethan showing up at every turn, my world is turned upside down. Ethan is everything Jackson isn’t: steady, patient, and impossible to ignore—especially after one drunken mistake turns into a family-wide spectacle. When Jackson’s desperation spirals and Ethan steps in to protect me, I’m forced to choose between old wounds and a love that feels like home. Can I finally let the past die and claim the happiness I deserve? Or am I just one confession away from losing it all again?

Love is the word on your tongue that you swallow. I always thought I hated Carter Lowell—the childhood fiancé I never chose, my boss, my nemesis. Our lives were tangled from birth, our families locked in a war of secrets and betrayals. Then a psychic’s joke wish, a mountain accident, and a darkness I couldn’t shake. Suddenly, I’m blind, abandoned, and forced to face every wound Carter and Lily ever left on me. My mother’s madness haunts me. My father’s betrayal stings. Carter is both the poison and the cure—his touch, my undoing. But when the world turns against me, when my only friend is the boy I once saved, and Carter kneels in the lobby for all to see... What if the only way to win is to stop fighting? What if letting go is the bravest thing I can do? When the snow falls and the past unravels, who will be there—waiting in the dark?

When my secret love letter is discovered, my mother is forced to read every word aloud in front of the whole class—exposing not just my shame, but my forbidden obsession with my own homeroom teacher. My family's poverty, my sacrifices, and my hopeless longing are laid bare for everyone to judge. Now, as I stand humiliated and broken, I must choose: run from my feelings, or confess the truth and walk away from the only future I've ever wanted.

Some endings are silent, but the ache never is. I thought Eli and I were forever—until a single betrayal tore us apart, leaving me clutching memories and a cheap county fair kite. Years later, I’m called back to his side as his emergency contact, thrown into a whirlwind of old wounds and unfinished business. He’s surrounded by new admirers, but the past still claws at both of us. I want closure, maybe even forgiveness, but Eli only offers distance. My friends say I’m a fool for loving him, but they never saw the sacrifices he made, the debts unpaid. Now, as I watch him slip away for the last time, I’m haunted by one question: Was I the one holding him back—or was he always running from something he could never name? If love is letting go, why does it hurt so much to set him free?

He loved her—just not me. On the night of our fourth anniversary, I watched Carter Langley slip further away, his heart claimed by another while our marriage became nothing but a headline. I was supposed to smile, play the perfect wife, and pretend not to notice the pitying looks or the silence that suffocated our home. But pain demands a witness. When betrayal cuts deeper than bone, how far will a woman go to make her absence felt? Carter’s indifference is legendary—until my final act leaves him with a haunting question and a secret he can never bury. If love is dead, what’s left for the living to regret?

He betrayed me with words—now the whole world thinks I’m the villain. When I discovered Carter’s secret love letters to Emily, our perfect family shattered overnight. Everyone—from my mother-in-law to his coworkers—urged me to forgive, to keep up appearances, to think of our daughter Maddie and let it go. But the ache of betrayal is everywhere: in the way Carter avoids my eyes, in the weight of the silence between us, in the humiliation of being called crazy while his mistress plays the victim. I gave up my career to support his dreams, only to be replaced by a fantasy I can never live up to. As gossip spreads and loyalties shift, I’m forced to choose between breaking apart the life I built or living with a wound that never heals. Can a marriage survive when everyone insists the pain is all in your head? If the world wants to cast me as the villain, what happens when I finally step into the role for real?

I spent ten years loving Ryan Matthews, only to watch him fall for my roommate in a single glance. Stuck playing matchmaker for the boy who never saw me, I buried my heartbreak while their romance bloomed—until a shy stranger named Eli finally noticed the loneliness I hid behind every smile. As Ryan and my roommate’s relationship unravelled, Eli’s gentle persistence pulled me toward a future I’d never imagined, forcing me to confront the years of longing and the self-doubt I’d carried. When Ryan’s jealousy erupts, and my roommate confesses her own regrets, I realize letting go is the only way to truly move forward. But when Ryan finally admits he knew my feelings all along, can I trust that Eli’s quiet devotion is real, or will the past keep haunting me? If loving someone means learning to let go, can I choose happiness before regret claims me again?

I thought quitting my favorite game would just save my GPA—not turn my whole life upside down. When I left, my gaming partner vanished too, but I never guessed he was Hollywood’s golden boy, Ethan Brooks, and I was the online ‘first love’ he lost. Now, thanks to my rival’s sabotage, I’m thrust into the spotlight—accused of stealing the identity of Ethan’s late muse, with millions watching. As the cameras roll and secrets spill, Ethan’s gaze says everything I tried to forget. In front of the world, our double lives collide: virtual partners, real heartbreak, and a love that never really ended. Will my past cost me everything I’ve just begun to build—or will the truth finally set us free? When the game’s over, who do you trust: the star, the sidekick, or the girl who lived?

For seven years, I loved America’s hottest pop star in silence—always his secret, always called by another woman’s name. On my birthday, he humiliated me in front of Hollywood’s elite, making it clear I was just a stand-in for his first love. But now, with my hearing restored and my heart shattered, I’m ready to expose every lie and take back the life—and the music—he stole from me.