Googled her name and now everything is far worse
Last year I briefly went out with this one woman. Wasn't for very long, but I thought the chemistry was insanely good, like already talking about long term life alignment and such. One moment with her was particularly locked in my brain for a while since I honestly thought it was the happiest I've ever been in my whole life. Then one day she told me that her dad was very sick - potentially terminally - so she wanted to move home. It was too soon into dating to move across the globe, so we stopped seeing each other.
As much as it hurt, the silver lining was that it was just bad luck that kept us from furthering the relationship. At least I could keep those positive memories. And maybe it proved I wasn't completely unlovable after all.
For some reason, I thought to Google her name today. Not only did I find a post from her husband, but also for whatever reason he included some dates about the start of their relationship. She was talking with him the whole time. In fact, one of the days we only got to talk for a couple minutes was apparently because she spent five hours on the road that day just to go see him.
I don't know if the sick dad was an outright lie or not, but she clearly didn't end things to move back home. I know people date around in early courtship, but it still stings like a motherfucker. The memory that at least once in my life I actually had someone really into me was one of the few truly happy thoughts I had left in my mind, but I guess it was just an illusion.