I\u2019m 23 and engaged to Ethan, 25. We met at a music festival, instantly clicked, and thought destiny had brought us together. We shared the same favorite bands, jokes, and even our favorite song. Within months, we were planning a future, convinced we\u2019d found our forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then came dinner with his closest friends. They were polite, but the atmosphere was strange \u2014 tense, awkward. Every time Ethan touched my hand or smiled at me, his friends exchanged uneasy looks. By the end of the night, I overheard one of them whisper a name: \u201cSuzan.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n On the ride home, I asked who she was. Ethan froze, then finally showed me a photo \u2014 a girl who looked almost identical to me. Suzan was his high-school love who left for college and broke his heart. They never spoke again, but suddenly everything clicked: the strange looks, the way Ethan stared at me when we met \u2014 like he was seeing someone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, weeks before our wedding, doubt is eating at me. Ethan swears he loves me<\/em>, not her memory. But every time he looks at me, I wonder if he sees me<\/em>\u2026 or the ghost of Suzan. The rings are bought, the venue booked \u2014 yet I don\u2019t know how to walk down the aisle when I\u2019m no longer sure who he\u2019s really in love with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019m 23 and engaged to Ethan, 25. We met at a music festival, instantly clicked, and thought destiny had brought us together. We shared the same favorite… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":337,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16319,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16317\/revisions\/16319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}