I got home, I’d decided that it didn’t matter whether my ex had been playing a game of charades with me all those years. What mattered was that I’d invested sincerely in our marriage, the meaning I’d brought to it, and the love and energy I’d put into creating my part of those memories. My truth didn’t need validation from anyone else to be real. Waking up to the realization that your ex is very likely someone with a narcissistic personality style or finding out that your ex is a