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Over the last two years, I’ve thought a lot about friendship.

About the people I’ve surrounded myself with, and the mistakes that I’ve made.

After all, adult friendships are difficult.

It took them a year to find out who was stalking our daughter, and that time changed forever how I act towards others and how I handle relationships.

For the safety of our family, we isolated ourselves during that time. We had no idea where the danger was, so it was best to just stay home and cut off contact with anyone we didn’t completely trust.

Learning that the woman who was stalking my daughter was someone I would have called a friend, someone who texted me “so glad God placed you all in our lives, and we get to raise our babies together” on Mother’s Day 2024…well, something like that changes how you look at people.

After we went public with our story, the fallout didn’t stop with the situation itself. People I once considered friends, families we had known for over a decade and shared countless memories with, chose to stand with the woman who stalked our child. They accused me of lying, claimed I was doing it for attention, and went as far as to say that Marcie Smith was the real victim because she couldn’t attend her daughter’s graduation.

Bertrayl at the deepest level.

I’m still hurt.

I’m still angry.

When I see those people in public (because welcome to living in a small town), it takes all my self-control to ignore them. What I really want to do is go up to them and have them tell me to my face what they post on social media and text to their friends.

I want to ask them if they’re proud of the person they’ve become.

But I don’t.

Instead, I take a deep breath, and I focus my energy on the people who have shown up for me, even when I didn’t ask.

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