The tears fall from her eyes, and you drown in her tears. You start to believe you can save her from a marriage that she claims not to want. So you start by becoming an addict of her smile, doing whatever it takes to see her teeth. You take her on long walks, picnics under the sunset, and cuddle in her morning smell. Becoming so suffocated in her happiness that you forget she promised another. You forget she used you to break that promise, and you will always be a regret.
Yes, we can all fall into this cycle of being a cheater’s assistant, blinded by the connection over the principle. We see the person losing focus of the crime. We helped steal a heart or, at least, honesty. We could have waited until she expressed her desire to leave. We could have been a friend until she was fully committed to ready to start again. But, we wanted to be the hero. We believed we were an excellent person saving her from a flawed human being. We never stopped to get the other side of the story. We never stopped to question how we would want her to break it off with us. Only seeing our opportunity, we became our own worst enemy. A Cheater’s Assistant.
