CATFISHING MY FIANCE

I tell you, the things you find out when you become someone else.

He proposed during the holidays with a 2.5 karat diamond ring. I was excited. This was meant to be the beginning of something new and huge in our lives. I was excited. I wanted a huge wedding with two hundred people. I had been compiling the list of attendees since I was in college. I wanted the wedding colors to be coral and blue. I had spent so much on the wedding in my head. I don’t know if he was as excited as I was to get married. I believe that giving me the ring was a step towards the commitment. I was happy. We had been going back and forth for five years. It was time to lock in and settle down.

Things seemed to be going well, I assumed. Until one day, we got into an argument. He stopped taking my calls and responding to my texts. I was scared. We had already put down a deposit on the hall. We were beginning to pay deposits for different things we wanted for the wedding. I spoke to my best friend Thalia about it. She told me to give him time and space. If there needed to be a sign that our marriage would not work out, here was the cue.

I was not satisfied with the answer she gave. It made a lot of sense though, why would you have a tiff with your fiancee and not make any effort to resolve it? I made up my mind, if he didn't get back to me by…