There is not a more worse feeling in the world than to find out that what you thought was real, never was real at all. It steals your joy.
Dupe #1: Satan killed and destroyed my marriage more than two years ago. I say more than two years ago because there were problems for years in the marriage. There were good times, but the years of manipulation, gaslighting - not knowing what was real - feeling unworthy, and unloved, finally made me shut down and pretty much give up. Our marriage finally came to an end with my husband's adulterous affair with another woman. December 30, 2021, he left our counseling session and did not return to our marriage. I felt like Satan had stolen part of God's plan for my life and it was my fault.
Dupe#2:This past summer, I met someone online who I thought was real, true, and honest. Throughout the fall, the relationship grew through texting and sharing pictures, but never talking live or face-timing. Turns out, I was being catfished; it was a romance scam. From the years of feeling unworthy and unloved, I was foolish wanting to feel loved and special, believing the flattering words and terms of endearment from this person behind the text. The person I believed this man to be, from the pictures he shared with me, was someone else and married. The person behind the words, not in the pictures, was a thief, an impostor. My heart was crushed when I finally wised up and realized the truth. This person was not real. Satan had stolen another piece of trust from me while in disguise.
