With two successful albums in the span of only nine months, Simon soon found herself solidified as a famous and immensely popular singer/songwriter. In 1971, she received a Grammy Award for Best New Artist of the Year, and additionally one nomination in the “Best Pop Female Vocalist” category.
Carly Simon – “You’re So Vain”
In November of 1972, Carly Simon released her third album, and it was intended to be her big commercial breakthrough. No Secrets spent five weeks at No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 chart and quickly achieved gold status.
It was a great album that spread all over the world, spending weeks and weeks on the top of the charts in countries like Norway, Australia and Canada. But it was one song in particular – the third on the album – that would change her life forever.
You’re So Vain was the song that most people reference when talking of Carly Simon. It was a smash-hit right away, and throughout the years, it’s grown even bigger and bigger.
The song is currently ranked at No. 92 on Billboard‘s Greatest Songs of All-Time list. In 2014, it was voted as number as no 216 when Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) asked the question of the best songs of the century. That same year, it was crowned as the ultimate song of the 1970’s by the UK Official Charts Company.
The album was recorded at the famous Trident Studios in London, England, where bands like The Beatles recorded The White Album and David Bowie made Space Oddity.
You’re So Vain – recording
You’re So Vain also held plenty of secrets when it was released, and for many years it was the subject of one of rock ‘n’ roll’s biggest mysteries. But we’ll get to that soon.
Firstly, Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger is uncredited on the song, even though he sings on the chorus.
At the time of the recording, several other famous artists were at the Trident Studios, and the likes of Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, legendary record producer George Martin, and Harry Nilsson watched her record. Actually, McCartney himself pitched in to guest star with background vocals.
And then there was Mick Jagger. Carly Simon wrote in her memoir that he actually invited himself to the recording. Jagger had pursued her in London and called Trident Studios once he understood she was there.
“It was shortly after midnight. Mick and I, we were close together – the same height, same coloring, same lips,” Simon writes.
“I felt as if I was trying to stay within a pink gravity that was starting to loosen its silky grip on me. I was thrilled by the proximity, remembering all the times I had spent imitating him in front of my closet mirror.”
As mentioned, You’re So Vain was a rock ‘n’ roll mystery. It’s always fun to know the background story of a song, wether its about a certain event, a person, or if that one line is a reference for something special.
You’re So Vain – who is it about?
In Carly Simon’s case, no one knew who You’re So Vain was about.
Some guessed – and had conspiracy theories – that the song was about Mick Jagger. Sure, there was a pretty clear connection between the two, especially since he actually sang on the record.
But no, it turns out the rumours were wrong. The truth is that You’re So Vain – at least the second verse – is about one-time Hollywood lothario Warren Beatty, whom she dated briefly in the early 1970’s.
“You had me several years ago when I was still quite naive.
Well you said that we made such a pretty pair.
And that you would never leave.
But you gave away the things you loved and one of them was me.
I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.
Clouds in my coffee”.
In her memoir, Carly revealed that the song was also about two other people, but she won’t reveal who they were.
“I don’t think so,” she told People. “At least until they know it’s about them.”
“Probably, if we were sitting over at dinner and I said: ‘remember that time you walked into the party and…’ I don’t know if I’ll do it. I never thought I would admit that it was more than one person.”
Simon dated Warren Beatty for a short while in the ’70s, and described him as a “glorious specimen” who put all other men “to shame, if looks and charm were what you were after.”
Carly Simon – James Taylor
So what about Carly Simon’s love life besides Warren? Well, she’s been married once, to singer/songwriter James Taylor.
They had met briefly as children, and then again in her dressing room in 1971. She described the latter meeting in her book. Taylor was there together with his then-girlfriend Joni Mitchell.
“He was barefoot, long-legged, long-footed – and is knees were bent,” she wrote in her memoir.
”He wore dark red, loose, wide-wale corduroys and a long-sleeved Henley with one button open, his right hand clutching a self-rule cigarette. His hair, simultaneously shiny and disheveled, fell evenly on both sides of his head, and he wore a scruffy, understated mustache, the kind so fashionable back in the yearly 1970s. He seemed both kempt and unkempt. Even sprawled out on the floor, everything about him communicated that he was, in fact, the center of something – the core of an apple, the center of a note.”
Carly Simon and James Taylor started dating later the same year and tied the knot in November of 1972. 11 years later, the couple divorced, but it wasn’t just because they didn’t have the same love for each other anymore.
Carly Simon – children
Simon explained that it mostly had to do with drugs. They had two children, now grown up and working in the music business. Daughter Sally Taylor is 46 years old and Ben Taylor’s 43.
Her memoir Boys in the Trees pretty much ends with her marriage to James Taylor. Her son hasn’t read the book. But her daughter has.
“I think he would feel more conflicted than Sally did,” Simon told ABC in 2016. “I had told her almost everything, but when she read it all together, she was just so amazed. She said, ‘I’m so proud of you for being able to tell it like it is for you.’”
Carly Simon was later engaged to musician Russ Kunkel in 1985. She married writer James Hart in December 1987, but the couple divorced in 2007.
Carly Simon, now 75 years of age, continued making music for many years to come. And, as a by-product, continued to win several awards for her trophy cabinet.
Her 1977 worldwide hit Nobody Does It Better was the theme song of the Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me. It’s considered by many to be one of the greatest Bond anthems of all time.
Hall of Fame entry
In 1988, she released the song Let The River Run, first featured in the 1988 movie Working Girl. With the song, she became the first singer ever to win three major awards for a single track: an Academy Award, a Grammy and a Golden Globe.
Six years later, in 1994, Carly was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Carly Simon lived a happy life during the 1960s and 1970s. She sure is a legendary singer with a legacy that will live on forever.
Thank you for all the wonderful music, Carly, and we hope to hear more in the future.
Please, share this story with friends and family!
When Carly Simon wrote the song You’re So Vain, her career changed forever, and yet the song remains one of rock ‘n’ roll’s biggest mysteries. Who is the person Simon is singing about?
Well, Carly herself has revealed who the classic song is about.
The 1970’s sure was a time for great music. During the 1960’s, bands like The Beatles had conquered the world, and now it was time for the likes of Bob Dylan and others to take over.
Carly Simon – singer/songwriter
One of those who did just that was Carly Simon. The wonderful singer/songwriter became one of the most popular artists when her career began to grow in the early 1970’s.
We’ve all heard You’re so Vain and various other classics from the New Yorker. But what about her life? And who was You’re so Vain actually about? This is the story of the wonderful Carly Simon.
Carly Simon was born on June 25, 1945, in New York City, the youngest daughter of an upper-class New York family. Her father Richard Simon was the co-founder of the Simon & Schuster publishing company.
Carly Simon – childhood
Now, Carly’s childhood wasn’t exactly perfect. As a third daughter, she often felt inadequate. Did her parents really want her?
“After two daughters he’d been counting on a son, a male successor to be named Carl. When I was born, he and Mommy simply added a y to the word, like an accusing chromosome: Carly,” she said.
When she was just 7 or 8 years old, Carly experienced a string of disturbing sexual encounters with a teenage boy.
“I didn’t realize that I was being used,” she said in an interview with USA Today. “I thought of myself as being in love with him. I’m sure a lot of girls go through the same thing.”
As a young girl, Carly got to see what the music industry was all about. But it would be some time before she would become the sensation she was.
Simon split her time between her family’s townhouse in Greenwich Village, New York and a wonderful estate in Stamford, Connecticut. The estate in Stamford saw the young girl surrounded by celebrities like Albert Einstein and Eleanor Roosevelt.
The Simon family were also good friends of legendary baseball player Jackie Robinson, who soon would take Carly under his wing. Jackie Robinson and his family lived in the Stamford house while their own home was under construction.
Befriended Jackie Robinson
She got to sit in the dugout at the old Ebbets Field in Brooklyn – home of the then-Brooklyn Dodgers. Soon, she became the unofficial mascot of the team.
“Jackie even taught me how to bat lefty, though it never took”, Simon wrote in her memoir Boys in the Trees (2015).
“He always had the cutest look around the side of his mouth, as if he were thinking about what he was about to say before he said it.”
However, the family would go through a tragedy. Simon’s father was strong-armed out of his own company, and died in 1960, just before his daughter’s 16th birthday.
For her part, Carly showed an early interest in music. She started singing together with brother Joey – who later became a successful writer, writing the music for the Broadway show The Secret Garden – but later, it was her and her sister who would go on to pursue a career in the business.
As Carly wrote on her website, she and sister Lucy taught themselves three chords on the guitar and hitch-hiked up to Provincetown, MA in the summer of 1964.
The Simon Sisters – as they called themselves – sang at a local bar called The Moors, with a repertoar consisting of folk music, as well as some of their own songs.
Touring with sister Lucy
Carly Simon and Lucy were eventually signed to Kapp Records and played a couple of clubs in Greenwich Village, opening for early comedians Woody Allen and Dick Cavett, among others, and even played in the UK.
In her memoir, Simon recalls the boat trip across the Atlantic heading home.
They were on the same boat as Sean Connery, and Carly and her sister ended up spending the trip with the actor. At that point, of course, no one could realize or even imagine that Carly would write a Bond theme song 12 years later.
The sister duo released three albums in the 1960s before Lucy left to get married.
Carly Simon was on her own, but still determined to forge a career in the music industry. However, her career had a slow start. She started working as a summer-camp counselor and as a secretary on a TV show.
Carly’s career
In February of 1971, Simon released her debut album Carly Simon. The song That’s the Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be – an anti-marriage-song – became her first hit, reaching No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 list.
In October, later the same year, Simon released her second album, Anticipation. By now, things had really started to blow up. Her album went gold in two years and contained the smash hit Anticipation, which peaked at No. 13 on the Billboard pop singles chart and also at No. 3 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart in the United States.
According to herself, Simon wrote the song in just 15 minutes while waiting for Cat Stevens at her place, whom she was dating at the time and had made dinner for. When he arrived, the song was ready, but the date only lasted a short while.
“He gave me whispers and drawings of Blake poems,” Carly Simon said. “He told me about his childhood, his mixed Greek and Swedish parents, and we made a connection that has lasted.”
With two successful albums in the span of only nine months, Simon soon found herself solidified as a famous and immensely popular singer/songwriter. In 1971, she received a Grammy Award for Best New Artist of the Year, and additionally one nomination in the “Best Pop Female Vocalist” category.
Carly Simon – “You’re So Vain”
In November of 1972, Carly Simon released her third album, and it was intended to be her big commercial breakthrough. No Secrets spent five weeks at No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 chart and quickly achieved gold status.
It was a great album that spread all over the world, spending weeks and weeks on the top of the charts in countries like Norway, Australia and Canada. But it was one song in particular – the third on the album – that would change her life forever.
You’re So Vain was the song that most people reference when talking of Carly Simon. It was a smash-hit right away, and throughout the years, it’s grown even bigger and bigger.
The song is currently ranked at No. 92 on Billboard‘s Greatest Songs of All-Time list. In 2014, it was voted as number as no 216 when Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) asked the question of the best songs of the century. That same year, it was crowned as the ultimate song of the 1970’s by the UK Official Charts Company.
The album was recorded at the famous Trident Studios in London, England, where bands like The Beatles recorded The White Album and David Bowie made Space Oddity.
You’re So Vain – recording
You’re So Vain also held plenty of secrets when it was released, and for many years it was the subject of one of rock ‘n’ roll’s biggest mysteries. But we’ll get to that soon.
Firstly, Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger is uncredited on the song, even though he sings on the chorus.
At the time of the recording, several other famous artists were at the Trident Studios, and the likes of Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, legendary record producer George Martin, and Harry Nilsson watched her record. Actually, McCartney himself pitched in to guest star with background vocals.
And then there was Mick Jagger. Carly Simon wrote in her memoir that he actually invited himself to the recording. Jagger had pursued her in London and called Trident Studios once he understood she was there.
“It was shortly after midnight. Mick and I, we were close together – the same height, same coloring, same lips,” Simon writes.
“I felt as if I was trying to stay within a pink gravity that was starting to loosen its silky grip on me. I was thrilled by the proximity, remembering all the times I had spent imitating him in front of my closet mirror.”
As mentioned, You’re So Vain was a rock ‘n’ roll mystery. It’s always fun to know the background story of a song, wether its about a certain event, a person, or if that one line is a reference for something special.
You’re So Vain – who is it about?
In Carly Simon’s case, no one knew who You’re So Vain was about.
Some guessed – and had conspiracy theories – that the song was about Mick Jagger. Sure, there was a pretty clear connection between the two, especially since he actually sang on the record.
But no, it turns out the rumours were wrong. The truth is that You’re So Vain – at least the second verse – is about one-time Hollywood lothario Warren Beatty, whom she dated briefly in the early 1970’s.
“You had me several years ago when I was still quite naive.
Well you said that we made such a pretty pair.
And that you would never leave.
But you gave away the things you loved and one of them was me.
I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.
Clouds in my coffee”.
In her memoir, Carly revealed that the song was also about two other people, but she won’t reveal who they were.
“I don’t think so,” she told People. “At least until they know it’s about them.”
“Probably, if we were sitting over at dinner and I said: ‘remember that time you walked into the party and…’ I don’t know if I’ll do it. I never thought I would admit that it was more than one person.”
Simon dated Warren Beatty for a short while in the ’70s, and described him as a “glorious specimen” who put all other men “to shame, if looks and charm were what you were after.”
Carly Simon – James Taylor
So what about Carly Simon’s love life besides Warren? Well, she’s been married once, to singer/songwriter James Taylor.
They had met briefly as children, and then again in her dressing room in 1971. She described the latter meeting in her book. Taylor was there together with his then-girlfriend Joni Mitchell.
“He was barefoot, long-legged, long-footed – and is knees were bent,” she wrote in her memoir.
”He wore dark red, loose, wide-wale corduroys and a long-sleeved Henley with one button open, his right hand clutching a self-rule cigarette. His hair, simultaneously shiny and disheveled, fell evenly on both sides of his head, and he wore a scruffy, understated mustache, the kind so fashionable back in the yearly 1970s. He seemed both kempt and unkempt. Even sprawled out on the floor, everything about him communicated that he was, in fact, the center of something – the core of an apple, the center of a note.”
Carly Simon and James Taylor started dating later the same year and tied the knot in November of 1972. 11 years later, the couple divorced, but it wasn’t just because they didn’t have the same love for each other anymore.
Carly Simon – children
Simon explained that it mostly had to do with drugs. They had two children, now grown up and working in the music business. Daughter Sally Taylor is 46 years old and Ben Taylor’s 43.
Her memoir Boys in the Trees pretty much ends with her marriage to James Taylor. Her son hasn’t read the book. But her daughter has.
“I think he would feel more conflicted than Sally did,” Simon told ABC in 2016. “I had told her almost everything, but when she read it all together, she was just so amazed. She said, ‘I’m so proud of you for being able to tell it like it is for you.’”
Carly Simon was later engaged to musician Russ Kunkel in 1985. She married writer James Hart in December 1987, but the couple divorced in 2007.
Carly Simon, now 75 years of age, continued making music for many years to come. And, as a by-product, continued to win several awards for her trophy cabinet.
Her 1977 worldwide hit Nobody Does It Better was the theme song of the Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me. It’s considered by many to be one of the greatest Bond anthems of all time.
Hall of Fame entry
In 1988, she released the song Let The River Run, first featured in the 1988 movie Working Girl. With the song, she became the first singer ever to win three major awards for a single track: an Academy Award, a Grammy and a Golden Globe.
Six years later, in 1994, Carly was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Carly Simon lived a happy life during the 1960s and 1970s. She sure is a legendary singer with a legacy that will live on forever.
Thank you for all the wonderful music, Carly, and we hope to hear more in the future.
Please, share this story with friends and family!
Dei à luz um filho depois de 20 anos de espera e tratamento — quando meu marido o viu, ele disse: “Você tem certeza de que este é meu?”
O dia em que meu filho nasceu deveria ter sido o mais feliz da minha vida. Em vez disso, foi o dia em que meu mundo inteiro começou a desmoronar. Quando meu marido finalmente apareceu no hospital, o que ele disse me deixou questionando tudo.
Estou casada com meu marido, Ethan, há 21 anos. Durante a maior parte desse tempo, lutamos contra a infertilidade. Derramei mais lágrimas do que jamais imaginei ser possível — lágrimas de esperança, decepção e desespero.
Mulher estressada | Fonte: Midjourney
Quando começamos a tentar, Ethan pareceu bastante solidário, comparecendo às consultas médicas e segurando minha mão enquanto navegávamos pelo labirinto de tratamentos. Mas, conforme os anos se arrastavam, algo mudou. Ele começou a se comportar… diferente.
Eu ignorei isso por muito tempo, me convencendo de que era apenas a tensão da nossa situação. Afinal, a infertilidade cobra seu preço no casamento. Mas suas noites de trabalho e ligações secretas se tornaram mais frequentes.
Eu o ouvia murmurar coisas como “Te ligo mais tarde”, antes de desligar rapidamente quando eu entrava.
Homem sentado em seu escritório à noite | Fonte: Midjourney
Era perturbador, mas escolhi não focar nisso. Eu estava tão consumida pelo desejo desesperado de ter um filho que não podia me permitir cair em uma espiral de paranoia.
Quando fiz 40 anos, eu tinha quase perdido a esperança. Mas algo em mim — chame de teimosia ou puro desespero — se recusou a desistir completamente. Decidi tentar uma última vez. Ethan pareceu indiferente, resmungando algo sobre “o que te fizer feliz” quando contei a ele sobre minha decisão. Aquilo doeu mais do que eu queria admitir.
E então, contra todas as probabilidades, aconteceu. Eu engravidei.
Uma pessoa segurando um teste de gravidez positivo | Fonte: Pexels
“Ethan”, eu sussurrei, segurando o teste de gravidez positivo em mãos trêmulas. “Conseguimos. Estou grávida.”
“Isso é… ótimo. Isso é realmente ótimo”, ele disse, mas seu tom estava errado. Forçado. Eu ignorei, focando na minha própria alegria.
Nove meses depois, dei à luz um lindo menino. Ethan se recusou a estar na sala de parto
“Vou desmaiar”, ele disse quando implorei para ele ficar. “Eles vão acabar cuidando de mim em vez de você.”
Então, eu passei por isso sozinha. E quando ele finalmente entrou no quarto do hospital duas horas depois, suas primeiras palavras me destruíram.
“Tem certeza de que este é meu?”, ele disse, com a voz fria e monótona.
Bebê recém-nascido coberto com cobertor azul | Fonte: Pexels
Eu me senti como se tivesse levado um tapa. “O quê? Ethan, como você pode me perguntar isso? Claro, ele é seu! Estamos tentando ter esse bebê há anos! “
Sua mandíbula se apertou, e ele enfiou a mão no bolso da jaqueta, tirando algo que eu não conseguia ver. “Eu tenho provas”, ele disse.
Meu mundo se inclinou. Que prova? O que ele poderia querer dizer?
Ele começou a me contar uma história maluca sobre como sua mãe tinha “provas” de que eu tinha sido infiel — fotos de um homem supostamente me esperando do lado de fora de casa, e como ela alegou que nenhum bebê havia nascido no quarto onde dei à luz, mas que alguém havia trazido um bebê diferente para fazer com que parecesse meu.
Homem de pé em um quarto de hospital | Fonte: Pexels
Olhei para ele, estupefata. “Isso é loucura. É tudo mentira! Você realmente acredita nela?”
“Ela não mentiria para mim”, ele disse, seu tom frio. “Ela é minha mãe.”
“E eu sou sua esposa. Aquela que passou por tudo para ter esse bebê. Aquela que quase morreu dando à luz a ele! E você está aqui me acusando de…” Eu não conseguia nem terminar a frase.
Ele se virou, sua expressão ilegível. “Voltarei quando estiver pronto para conversar”, ele disse, saindo pela porta e me deixando sentado ali, tremendo de raiva e mágoa.
Mulher segurando seu bebê recém-nascido | Fonte: Midjourney
No momento em que ele saiu, peguei meu telefone e liguei para minha melhor amiga, Lily. Ela atendeu no primeiro toque.
“Claire? O que houve?”
Não consegui segurar as lágrimas. “Ele acha que eu o traí. Ele disse que a mãe dele tem provas. Lily, é loucura. Não sei o que fazer.”
“Ok, vá devagar”, ela disse, sua voz calma, mas firme. “Comece do começo.”
Quando terminei de explicar, a voz de Lily assumiu um tom duro. “Algo não está certo, Claire. Você precisa ficar de olho nele. Ele não está agindo normalmente.”
Mulher ao telefone | Fonte: Midjourney
“Observá-lo? Como?”
“Eu farei isso”, ela disse sem hesitar. “Se ele estiver tramando algo, eu vou descobrir.”
Horas depois, ela ligou de volta após rastreá-lo. “Claire, ele foi para a casa de outra mulher. Eu o vi entrar.”
Meu coração parou. “O quê?”
“Escute-me”, Lily disse urgentemente. “Isso não faz sentido. Você precisa de ajuda — ajuda profissional. Contrate alguém que possa investigar isso.”
Mulher emocionada ao telefone | Fonte: Midjourney
Poucos dias depois, entrei em contato com Lydia, uma investigadora particular que Lily havia recomendado fortemente. Ela ouviu atentamente, enquanto eu contava cada detalhe.
“Isso é uma bagunça”, ela disse finalmente, seus olhos afiados encontrando os meus. “Mas eu vou conseguir respostas. Me dê dois dias.”
Dois dias. Tudo o que eu podia fazer agora era esperar.
Quando levei Liam do hospital para casa, Ethan não estava lá. Nenhuma mensagem, nenhuma ligação — apenas um silêncio frio e vazio.
Que tipo de pai não aparece para o filho?
Mulher segurando um bebê recém-nascido | Fonte: Midjourney
A espera era insuportável. Eu checava meu telefone a cada cinco minutos, esperando uma palavra de Lydia, a investigadora particular. Quando a campainha tocou cedo na manhã seguinte, quase pulei da minha pele.
O rosto de Lydia estava sério, seus lábios pressionados em uma linha fina. “Precisamos conversar.”
Eu a levei para a cozinha, acomodando Liam em seu berço. Os olhos de Lydia suavizaram quando ela olhou para ele.
Ela se inclinou para frente, sua voz calma, mas deliberada. “Falei com a irmã de Ethan.”
Mulheres tendo uma conversa séria | Fonte: Midjourney
“A irmã dele?” Minhas sobrancelhas se franziram. “Nós não conversamos. Ela é… bem—”
“Ela não é uma viciada como você pensa”, Lydia interrompeu. “Ela está sóbria há anos, e ela me contou muita coisa — coisas que vão mudar tudo para você.”
“Que tipo de coisas?”, perguntei.
“Ethan se casou com você pelo seu dinheiro”, ela disse sem rodeios. “A família inteira dele sabia. Eles planejaram desde o começo.”
Mulheres tendo uma conversa séria | Fonte: Midjourney
“O quê?” Minha voz falhou e eu apertei a borda da mesa com mais força.
“Nos últimos vinte anos, ele vem desviando dinheiro da sua herança. Não só para si mesmo, mas para sustentar outra família — a outra família dele. Ele tem três filhos com outra mulher.”
“Não… você está errado”, gritei.
“Não estou”, Lydia disse, deslizando uma pasta em minha direção. “Está tudo aqui — registros bancários, contas médicas e fotos. E tem mais. Parece que Ethan pode estar sabotando suas tentativas de engravidar.”
Uma pessoa recebendo documentos impressos | Fonte: Pexels
Eu congelei, olhando para ela. “O que… o que você quer dizer?”
“Algumas das clínicas que você foi — há evidências de que ele mexeu em coisas. Ele não queria que você engravidasse, Claire.”
Meu peito estava apertado. Eu mal conseguia respirar.
As palavras de Lydia pairavam no ar, me sufocando. Eu mal conseguia pensar. “Sabotando meus tratamentos?”, sussurrei, minha voz tremendo. “Outra família? Como… como ele pôde fazer isso comigo?”
Mulher estressada | Fonte: Midjourney
Olhei para Liam em seu berço, sua pequena mão se curvando e desenrolando no sono. O peso de vinte anos caiu sobre mim como um maremoto. Memórias que eu uma vez acarinhara agora pareciam contaminadas. Os pequenos gestos de amor, as promessas sussurradas de para sempre — tudo tinha sido uma mentira.
Os soluços começaram silenciosamente, mas logo vieram em ondas, me sacudindo até o âmago. Como pude ser tão cega? Tão tola? Passei anos me culpando — meu corpo — por nossas lutas para engravidar, enquanto Ethan estava me sabotando.
Mulher estressada | Fonte: Midjourney
Pensei em cada consulta tarde da noite, em cada tratamento fracassado e em cada momento que passei chorando no escuro enquanto ele fingia preocupação.
“Eu confiei nele”, eu disse em voz alta, minha voz embargada. “Eu o amava, Lydia. Eu dei tudo a ele.”
Lydia se levantou, colocando uma mão firme em meu braço. “E é por isso que você tem que lutar, Claire. Ele não merece suas lágrimas. Pense em Liam. Ele precisa de você forte.”
Olhei para Liam, minhas lágrimas diminuindo conforme a raiva substituía a tristeza. Lydia estava certa. Meu filho precisava de mim. Limpei meu rosto, minha determinação endurecendo a cada respiração.
Mãe embalando seu bebê recém-nascido | Fonte: Midjourney
“Você está certo”, eu disse finalmente, minha voz mais firme agora. “Eu não vou deixá-lo escapar dessa.”
Peguei meu telefone, olhando para a tela por um longo momento antes de discar. “James”, eu disse quando meu advogado atendeu. “Precisamos conversar. É sobre Ethan.”
Poucos dias depois, ouvi o barulho familiar do carro de Ethan entrando na garagem. Os papéis do divórcio estavam dispostos cuidadosamente na mesa da cozinha, prontos para ele.
Fiquei na sala de estar, com Liam aninhado em seu berço ao meu lado, enquanto esperava ele entrar. A porta se abriu e Ethan entrou.
Mãe segurando seu bebê | Fonte: Midjouney
“Claire?”, ele chamou, com um tom hesitante, como se já soubesse que estava caindo em uma armadilha.
“Estou aqui”, eu disse, mantendo a voz firme.
Não perdi um segundo. “Por que você está abandonando seu filho?”, perguntei, cada palavra deliberada e afiada.
Ele piscou, assustado. “O quê? Eu não estou abandonando ninguém. Claire, eu… me desculpe, ok? Eu estava confuso e emocionado. Eu disse um monte de coisas estúpidas que eu não queria dizer. Nada disso era verdade.”
“Sério?” Inclinei a cabeça. “Então por que você não nos pegou no hospital? Onde você esteve por três dias? Por que você não atendeu minhas ligações?”
Casal tendo um desentendimento | Fonte: Midjourney
Ele hesitou, mas então sua expressão se suavizou naquele sorriso familiar e desarmante. “Eu tinha uma viagem de negócios urgente”, ele disse, sua voz transbordando falsa sinceridade.
“Claire, eu juro, eu não estava te ignorando. Eu nunca faria isso. Sinto muito, querida.”
“Interessante”, eu disse, inclinando-me ligeiramente para trás. “Quais são os nomes dos seus três filhos?”
Seu rosto inteiro congelou. O sorriso evaporou, substituído por um olhar de puro choque. Pela primeira vez, a máscara caiu, e eu vi o homem por baixo — o mentiroso, o manipulador.
“Eu…” ele começou, mas nenhuma palavra saiu.
Casal tendo um desentendimento | Fonte: Midjourney
“Guarde isso”, eu disse, interrompendo-o com um olhar gélido. “Eu sei de tudo, Ethan. Quando você for embora hoje”, eu disse, levantando e me virando em direção às escadas, “certifique-se de pegar os papéis do divórcio na mesa da cozinha. Obrigada.”
Não esperei pela resposta dele. Levei Liam para cima, meu coração disparado.
Um momento depois, ouvi a porta da frente bater. Quando voltei mais tarde, os papéis tinham sumido. Finalmente tinha acabado.
Depois de algumas semanas, o acordo foi finalizado. Ethan saiu com um pagamento modesto — uma quantia que considerei uma barganha para livrar minha vida de sua presença tóxica. A casa, os carros e os negócios ficaram comigo, graças à montanha de evidências que minha equipe jurídica apresentou.
Mulher em pensamentos profundos | Fonte: Midjourney
Meus advogados também estavam construindo casos fortes contra Ethan e as clínicas de fertilidade que conspiraram com ele. “Isso vai levar tempo”, meu advogado, James, me alertou. “Mas estou confiante de que venceremos.”
Tempo era algo em que eu estava disposto a investir. Por enquanto, meu foco estava em Liam. Ele merecia uma vida livre de mentiras e enganos.
Uma noite, enquanto eu embalava Liam para dormir, sussurrei suavemente para ele: “Vou garantir que você nunca cresça duvidando do seu valor, pequeno.”
Mãe embalando seu bebê para dormir | Fonte: Midjourney
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Este trabalho é inspirado em eventos e pessoas reais, mas foi ficcionalizado para fins criativos. Nomes, personagens e detalhes foram alterados para proteger a privacidade e melhorar a narrativa. Qualquer semelhança com pessoas reais, vivas ou mortas, ou eventos reais é mera coincidência e não intencional do autor.
O autor e a editora não fazem nenhuma reivindicação quanto à precisão dos eventos ou à representação dos personagens e não são responsáveis por nenhuma interpretação errônea. Esta história é fornecida como “é”, e quaisquer opiniões expressas são as dos personagens e não refletem as opiniões do autor ou da editora.
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