<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Relationship Betrayals — World of Curious</title><description>Original fiction about trust breaking, and what people do in the week afterwards.</description><link>https://worldofcurious.com/</link><language>en-au</language><atom:link href="https://worldofcurious.com/relationship-betrayals/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>He Rang on the Twenty-Second of December, on the House Phone</title><link>https://worldofcurious.com/article/the-second-phone-in-the-shed-part-5/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://worldofcurious.com/article/the-second-phone-in-the-shed-part-5/</guid><description>Part five of five. Fifty minutes, standing at the sink with wet hands, and a dead phone in a drawer in the hall that nobody will throw away.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Relationship Betrayals</category><category>fiction</category><category>marriage</category><category>family</category><author>Editorial Team</author></item><item><title>He Told Her Everything, Badly, and Out of Order</title><link>https://worldofcurious.com/article/the-second-phone-in-the-shed-part-4/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://worldofcurious.com/article/the-second-phone-in-the-shed-part-4/</guid><description>Part four of five. Two and a half years of information delivered in one afternoon by a man who had been carrying it alone.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 03:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Relationship Betrayals</category><category>fiction</category><category>marriage</category><category>family</category><author>Editorial Team</author></item><item><title>She Asked Him on a Sunday, Standing Up, With the Radio On</title><link>https://worldofcurious.com/article/the-second-phone-in-the-shed-part-3/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://worldofcurious.com/article/the-second-phone-in-the-shed-part-3/</guid><description>Part three of five. He did not look surprised, which she had braced for. He did not look guilty, which she had also braced for.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Relationship Betrayals</category><category>fiction</category><category>marriage</category><category>family</category><author>Editorial Team</author></item><item><title>Fourteen Days of Watching a Man She Had Been Married to for Twenty-Nine Years</title><link>https://worldofcurious.com/article/the-second-phone-in-the-shed-part-2/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://worldofcurious.com/article/the-second-phone-in-the-shed-part-2/</guid><description>Part two of five. This is the part people find hardest to understand, and the part she has least interest in defending.</description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Relationship Betrayals</category><category>fiction</category><category>marriage</category><category>family</category><author>Editorial Team</author></item><item><title>A Charged Phone in a Shed Is a Phone Somebody Is Using</title><link>https://worldofcurious.com/article/the-second-phone-in-the-shed/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://worldofcurious.com/article/the-second-phone-in-the-shed/</guid><description>Part one of five. It was in a margarine tub, under a folded tarpaulin, behind the tins of screws. It was not the phone that frightened her.</description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Relationship Betrayals</category><category>fiction</category><category>marriage</category><category>family</category><author>Editorial Team</author></item></channel></rss>