When the One You Want Is Taken

There’s something about forbidden timing that hits harder than anything else.

We’ve all read the stories—the ones where the person you can’t have is the one who knows you best. The one you almost had. The one you did have… until life, or timing, or fear got in the way.

And now?

They belong to someone else.

Maybe it’s a wedding. Maybe it’s a reunion. Maybe it’s just a glance across the room when you’re both pretending you’re fine. But that ache—that “what if” that never quite fades—is the heart of this week’s theme: Engaged… But Not to Me.

It’s the tension between history and reality. The question of whether love can survive regret. The moment when someone says “I do”—and you wonder if it should’ve been you.

This week, I’m diving into all of that.

I’ll be sharing quotes, tropes, and a brand-new short story about a wedding planner who has to plan the wedding of the man she never stopped loving. It’s emotional, a little messy, and full of longing.

Because sometimes, the love story you didn’t get to finish is the one that still burns brightest.

Come back for the story on Thursday when it drops.