Love, marriage, and the unavoidable threats of enticements all go into the everyday highs and lows of any relationship. It is no doubt that technological progressions have made interaction through online media far simpler than they have ever been previously. So natural that numerous couples appreciate each other’s conversation day by day without being close to one another, how would they do it?
By sending real-time pictures and recordings to their partners, yet what happens when an image shows more to a story than you were prepared or ready to share? All things considered, this couple in Portugal can unquestionably concur that a few pictures accomplish more harm than planned. So much harm that you will have a hard time believing how this story unfurls!
Meet Iris
Iris is a gorgeous girl, who recently graduated from fashion school. For the moment, she is searching for love! Nonetheless, there was one negative trait in her personality. She was so shy!
Even though Iris is stunning, she is never able to buy herself food or drink as she suffers from social anxiety. Her friends are worried about her as she is failing at in-person meetups. So they decide to come up with an easy and relaxed solution to her problems.
It all begins with an app.
This appalling story starts with a modern way of falling in love; a dating app. So what Iris’s friends suggest is to get her registered for a dating app. They thought that Iris’s fear to interact with a stranger would go away when she gets them online first.
Iris agreed to try out this option as she really needs to find love. The app appeared easy at first for her. But while she was scrolling down, she came up with some impolite and spooky questions and suggestions. She was on the edge to give up on the app and then she met him!
A magical first date
Well, we could say this ‘him’ was the one. His name was Thomas and he worked in sales. No sooner, the couple fell head over heels in love with each other they couldn’t get enough of them.
They spent their days looking at their phones waiting to get a text from the other. Eventually, they decided to meet. Iris was so happy and thought that this would be the best date in her life, but what happened next really shocked her.
Status: “Infatuated”
In no time, the couple went official. They started to show their presence in events with each other. Her friends were so envying her as she had finally found the love of her life and whenever they show up, they looked at the couple with envy.
The love they had was so catching and overwhelming. It was the first time that both of them fell so in love. “It was like meeting your soulmate!” Well, one of the soul mates was about to do something audacious.
A surprise trip to paradise
As they were so in love with each other, Thomas wanted to surprise Iris with a getaway trip. He selected a warm and sensuous place just to spend some time with each other without having any interruption. It seemed like they were committed to each other.
As it was a total surprise, He asked one of Iris’s friends to bring her to the airport. After a few minutes, the couple found themselves on the plane. They were so excited. But they had no idea that their surprise would be more surprising.
The proposal
It was the most perfect weekend in their lives. They spent the weekend merrily enjoying the sunlight and each other’s company. They visited all the places on the island, including the beach.
On their last day, both of them took a walk on the beach. They wanted to enjoy every moment before going back to their normal lives. When they were walking, Iris noticed some bright lights, and when she was getting closer, she read the lights, “will you marry me?!”
She said, Yes!
Indeed, they had been only dating for a few months, but they felt it like their whole lifetime. Iris was not entirely comfortable as she was worried about making commitments and how fast they committed to each other.
The perfect scene and how Thomas had already committed to her made her so ecstatic. She had confidence that Thomas was different from everyone and so, without thinking twice she said yes. They were so thrilled to share the happy news with the world.
The nuptials were as magical as their courtship.
They were so happy that they found each other. They were so eager to marry so soon as they didn’t want to waste even a minute without each other. But they knew that they have to plan their wedding.
Both of them wanted to have a small ceremony only with their close friends and family. So they planned well and got a decent wedding. All the guests were so happy with the couple. At the same time, some guests wondered how they were going to fare.
A happy marriage
After the wedding, they had a super romantic honeymoon. After all this, they returned to their normal lives. They moved into an apartment that they thought perfect for them and started their new lives as husband and wife.
There were obviously some people doubting their relationship, but they were so happy with each other. They did well together, they spend time with each other, and together they planned their happy future.
Picture perfect couple may not be so perfect.
The couple was so in love and they appeared like “they were right out of a magazine.” Iris was young and gorgeous. She was into fashion and styles. On the other hand, Thomas was no lower to Iris.
He too was young and ambitious. He was planning to have a great future with Iris and he worked so hard for that. But as every good thing is followed by a bad thing, the young had to go through some struggles. How would they manage it as a couple?
Happy ever after isn’t complete without a home
After six months of dating, the couple wanted to have a place that should feel like home. In no time, they wanted to have their own place to call home. So both of them were searching for a perfect place for them.
Without long, they could find a place for them. The place was old and seemed like it needed some repairs. The couple felt like they could handle it. Even though they thought renovating the house was the only problem they had, unluckily, there were more problems to come.
Thomas gets fired
The happy couple divided tasks between them. Iris concentrated on the house renovating while Thomas worked so hard at his work. Then the executives of his company asked him to come to a meeting.
He thought that they were going to give him a salary increment as he worked hard. But, what happened was the opposite of it. The company has got a downswing and he was fired. It was unexpected for both of them. How they handled it was more astonishing for both of them.
Money problems
As Thomas lost his job, they’re left out with no income. They had already decided that Iris would stay at home being a housewife. Now, as their only way of earning me was gone, they had to depend on their savings.
They had to do their home renovations along with their problems as well. But they had no money for it without having any constant income. They never expected that their first year of marriage would be this hard.
The job search began.
Without hesitation, the couple promised each other to carry on together. They cut off some of their expenses and Thomas worked so hard to find a new job. He attended many interviews hoping that he would finally get a job.
Eventually, he got a new job. Thomas was so happy as he could again give his wife a perfect life. Iris was happy too and they thought their bad time is finally over. But the new job required something even worse.
The strains of work
Thomas worked in sales, so he had to go traveling as a work requirement. He was used to traveling and he was gone for several days each year. Though he was used to it, for Iris it was a new thing.
Well, she rarely saw her husband until he lost his job. Thomas was planning to get a promotion and he promised Iris that he would leave traveling after the promotion. Yet, nothing went as they planned.
The new requirement would cost the couple quality time together.
The new job was even worse. It required extensive travel. Thomas had to travel a lot more than he used to do. The couple was so distressed about the news. Yet, they were not in a position to let this job go as it was the only thing that they found in months.
The couple knew that they had nothing else to do other than accepting this job offer. They knew that they have to overcome all the hardships in life. But they never thought that they would have to live away from each other.
Thomas found great success in his new job.
So Thomas took the job. Now they had a stable income. With that, Iris started to work again on renovating the house. Thomas traveled while Iris stayed home. Iris had decided to support her husband with his job.
At the same time, Thomas worked hard and was so successful in his career. He even got twice the salary in the first year of working in the new company. Yet, they had no idea that his success was what destroyed their happiness.
The cost of success became loneliness for the young couple.
Even though the young couple made an honest effort to remain in contact, offering their everyday lives to one another over media rather than face to face, solitude started to sneak in, thus did harshness.
Thomas accepted his success would procure him a place that would end the need to travel, however, his aspiration demonstrated excessively expensive for their association. Iris felt so distant and alone.
The couple continued to grow apart.
After several years, the couple got more distanced from each other. They felt each other as strangers. Iris was no longer wanted to help her husband to achieve his dreams. Both of them seemed hopeless.
Thomas tried to settle down things with her wife at first, but he too got tired of it. They were a happy couple, but now they had become two strangers. Their love turned into bitterness. Then Thomas got a coded message while he was traveling to Paris and it changed everything.
Thomas makes a decision.
Iris grew tired of the distance in their marriage. She sent a shocking text to Thomas saying that she was so fed up and that she didn’t feel loved anymore in the marriage. Thomas understood that he forgot about all of his wife’s needs because of his ambitions.
Then he decided to find a job which is closer to home. Now that he had climbed his career ladder so much, she was quite sure he would be able to find a good position. He was excited and came back home with the happy news. But one mistake risked all their happiness.
Thomas sets his plan in motion.
Being so excited Thomas started to make arrangements. He subtly applied to numerous organizations and started to glance through their offers while he plotted how to surprise Iris with the news.
He even wanted to get her a gift to ensure that he was still committed to her. Tragically, he would settle on a choice that would compromise their joy without acknowledging it. He had no idea what would happen next.
The lack of communication would cost him dearly.
As he was planning, Thomas made a big mistake without realizing it in his decision. He planned to go surprise Iris without letting her know. All that he wanted to do was make up for not being there with her.
Iris was already feeling that she was neglected and that she was not being loved by Thomas. Thomas had no idea that this loneliness Iris was feeling would make her do something that he would never recover from.
Thomas was skirting the lines of faithfulness.
A typical attribute of steady travel is meeting new people, and Thomas also came across many new people. With a man as handsome and settled as Thomas, he frequently ran into alluring ladies on his work trip.
And those attractive ladies were also so concentrated about Thomas. One of those ladies would end up being a degree of allurement that he will be unable to deal with? Guess what happened next.
A few drinks at a bar leaves Thomas at a crossroad.
So the plan was all set to surprise Iris and to go tell about his plan to return home and it was the final trip that he went. Nonetheless, Iris, who was ignored and became distant was scolding Thomas for choosing the carrier over marriage.
This caused stress. Intending to calm his mind, Thomas went to a bar. He wanted to be relaxed as both his job and his family were pressurizing him. When he was at the bar, he met a strange stranger.
A spark between a stranger and a married man
Thomas would later go through hours conversing with the exquisite, however secretive woman who sat opposite him at the bar. The night turned dim, and the bar turned out to be more meager, yet, Thomas and the woman proceeded to message while disregarding Iris’ messages.
This new association he felt with this outsider was energizing, and Thomas really wanted to feel enticed. Unexpectedly the bar closes, and she welcomes him back. What choice would he make?
Staying faithful is harder than it seems.
Thomas gazed at the lovely woman who had offered him something he hadn’t felt in years. Indeed, he loved his wife, yet their marriage had slacked on for quite a while, and he had started to lose confidence. He was so drunk and he chose to follow her back to her inn.
Filled with guilt toward the beginning of the day, Thomas took his things and made a promise to himself never to cheat again. In any case, his offenses would be the most insignificant part of their difficulties.
A photo update changes everything.
Half a month after his misstep, Thomas had chosen not to mention to Iris what occurred, not having any desire to disturb her. All things considered, he informed her concerning his move back and that the excursion he was on would be his last.
Iris was energized and was so excited. The couple had gotten back to being the glad love birds they had once been. They were so in love again. This joy was broken when Iris sent a photograph.
Realization sets in
The photograph was basic and very little unique concerning the ones that Iris had been sent in the previous weeks and any event, during the first year of their marriage. Thomas something unusual!
It was an image of Iris in a white tank top and pants grinning into the camera. She looked cheerful and substance, and Thomas really wanted to feel wiped out when he saw the inconsistency.
The devil is always in the details, and this one was heartbreaking.
The image itself was excellent and normal, there was not much, and Thomas ought to have felt glad at the idea of his significant other sending him a selfie to flaunt her day. But he wasn’t.
Tragically, everything except one thing was set up, and it was a small detail that would prod Thomas into making an overwhelming acknowledgment. Guess what is this thing that made Thomas so upset?
There was no wedding ring.
Anyway, what was feeling the loss of that would make Thomas so dismal and hopeless? The wedding ring. In the image Iris had sent him, her wedding ring was not there. So was she purposefully not wearing or something else?
It had neither rhyme nor reason, “why would she do that? How could she do that?” Thomas kept on asking himself, yet no answer would ring a bell. His entire world was crushed within the next moment.
He anxiously awaits the moment of reckoning.
Thomas gazed at the photograph for quite a long time, without knowing how to react to some other messages. Out of nowhere, his reality felt uncomfortable, and all that he thought about Iris appeared to be obviously false.
His trip back home was simply the following day, and he prepared for the encounter that would happen when he got back. Yet, how things would unfurl would stun them both. What would happen next?
Cheating is a two-way street.
Thomas didn’t waste any time standing up to Iris, who conceded hesitantly that she engaged in extramarital relations with a man while Thomas was on his last outing. She had felt disregarded, and he had offered her a shoulder to incline toward.
Thomas was adjacent to himself. How would he be able to potentially excuse his better half for doing this? She had broken his trust and injured his pride and heart out of resentment. He exclaimed something he would never reclaim.
Betrayed and devastated, the couple chooses to divorce.
Thomas admitted to his own issue out of resentment. This made Iris blame him for being a fraud. They were both furious and loaded up with disdain towards one another. The love they had for each other had vanished.
Out of resentment, they decided to get a divorce. The perfect couple had disintegrated and needed nothing to do with one another, however, life is unusual and what follows is unforeseen.
They go their separate ways.
Resentful and heartbroken, the couple headed out in a different direction, and Thomas got back to his old position abroad. He didn’t need any memory of Iris and their bombed marriage.
And Iris moved back to the city to find a new line of work in fashion as she had once longed for. The couple never anticipated seeing each other again. It was astonished to see a lovely couple splitting like this.
New beginnings in a new city
A long time later, Thomas is allocated to another city and is improving for himself. Since he is attractive and rich, numerous ladies run to him, yet he is uninterested in communicating his dislike for love.
On an arbitrary night after work, he chose to go to a neighborhood bistro close to his loft. It is there he has a game-changing experience. Guess what would happen next? Did he meet iris again?
A Stunning guest walks in.
While he sat, his eyes fascinated on the screen before him, he was out of nowhere helped to remember the main night he and Iris had an actual date. Looking at his phone, he heard a perceptible heave. 
A young lady with short dim hair had strolled into the bistro, and all the benefactors were astonished by her beauty, looking to the side at interest to perceive what she resembled he was dazed at who remained before him.
The streets at night are perfect for forgiveness.
It was wintertime, and the roads were lit with Christmas lights. Thomas was delighted by the view and thought that it was both charming and unwinding. He felt relaxed and he kept on enjoying the view.
His stroll to the bistro caused him to acknowledge the amount he had mended and filled in the previous barely any years since his separation, which made the experience much all the more stunning.
Thomas meets an old flame.
Thomas was stunned to find that the outsider was Angel, his high school sweetheart. They had separated in the junior year of secondary school, she had moved to another country when her dad had found another line of work.
After that, they had lost contact. They were friends on social media yet had never conveyed past birthday posts. The unexpected experience felt critical. But Thomas was flabbergasted to see her.
A fateful reunion
Angel was also similarly astonished to see Thomas, taking a seat close to him. She sat, and they grinned and made up for lost time with their particular lives. They had not met in more than ten years.
Yet it seemed like a couple of days had passed. Their discussion went so well; it prompted startling outcomes. What do you think? Will they get back together again? Well, keep on guessing.
A loving conversation leads to healing.
Even though it didn’t feel like the first time when he met Iris, Thomas felt warmth and fascination without precedent for an extended period of time. The two of them shared their emotions. 
They were both separated, and Thomas conceded that Iris was presently married with a kid, Angel was understanding, and their association felt more grounded than anything Thomas had known in quite a while, so long that they amazed each other.
Time flies when you’re in love.
They talked for such a long time they didn’t see the time passed by. Their eyes and hands stayed interlaced up until the bar was shut. The server snooping on the discussion, let them remain until she needed to shut down the store.
The two were appreciative, however, stunned when they understood the bistro was presently unfilled. Both of them were feeling something, exactly what they felt way back in their high school.
The start of something new
Angel grinned at Thomas and offered to show him around later on. The two of them remained outside the bistro, sitting tight for their particular taxicabs and gazing at the otherworldly lights.
The moment was healthy, and peering down at their hands, reddening, they understood they were interlaced. They fell in love again! What’s more, another existence of plausibility lay ahead.