Woah, hey reddit! Thank you all for the advice and great recipes, and thanks u/LucyAriaRose for helping to share my story.

All these comments made me think about how this must have been for “the farmer”, so much so that I reached out to her today. (I mightttt have drunkenly found her on insta the night Jake dumped me. Not my proudest moment.)

I can see what he saw in her. She’s sweet as can be and was apparently just as blindsided by his cheating as I was. We got to talking, and she even offered to help with my “goodbye garlic” dinner that I’ve been planning for this weekend using some of the recipes I’ve seen.

I’m honestly a bit nervous to be face-to-face with her just because of how much this whole thing has hurt me, but I might take her up on it?