A California nurse described in a multi-part TikTok story coming back from a night shift to an empty truck and a wedding ring on the table inside the travel trailer she shared with her then-husband. Karlie Tooley, who posts as @ktooley89, laid out the account across videos that together drew hundreds of thousands of views. In part 1 of the TikTok videos, Tooley recalled graduating nursing school at 22, meeting her ex around that time, and later marrying at 26. She always wanted to do travel nursing and return to California, she explained. They bought an older travel trailer, remodeled it, and headed to Northern California for a 13-week assignment. In the next video on TikTok, she described working 12-hour night shifts. She got off work and reached the RV site around 8:30 a.m. The truck was gone, which at first did not strike her as unusual. She walked inside and saw one of their two dogs, Blue. The other dog was missing. The next thing that caught her eye, she told viewers, was her then-husband’s wedding ring on the table with a note. The note read, “I’m not in love with you anymore. I don’t want to be married to you.” Her grandfather was in the trailer when her ex returned to pick it up Tooley recounted calling him on her lunch break the night before, sometime between 10 p.m. and midnight. They talked about Thanksgiving plans for the following week, including whether he should come to the hospital and have lunch with her. She later learned he had started the drive back to Washington right after she left for work, so he was already on the road during that call. @ktooley89 Replying to @Georgina Mulqueen story time, buckle up #nurse #storytime #travelnurse #nurselife #nursesoftiktok ♬ original sound – Karlie Tooley | Nurse | Mom The minutes and hours after finding the note were a blur, she continued. She tried calling him, and he did not answer. She stayed awake all day, called family, and sat with her dog. She still had to return that night for another shift and felt as if her body was going through the motions. She had no choice but to finish the remaining six or seven weeks of the contract. He had taken the truck, so she could not move the trailer. The long-term RV site did not have sewage hookups at the spot, and she pulled a large container down a long gravel road by hand to empty it. Communication with him stayed limited, she explained. Near the end of the contract, he agreed to drive back for the trailer. Her family did not want her to be alone with him, so her grandfather came and was in the trailer when the ex arrived. Her ex went “stone cold,” pulled her aside, and said, “I cannot believe that you have the audacity to catch me off guard like this and have your grandpa waiting when I had no clue.” She answered, “Excuse me, you want to talk about surprising somebody from left field?” @ktooley89 part 2 & my grandpa is a saint#nurse #storytime #travelnurse #nurselife #nursesoftiktok ♬ original sound – Karlie Tooley | Nurse | Mom In the 3rd TikTok video, she said she had already booked a Christmas trip to Hawaii to visit her sister. After weeks in what she called survival mode, the situation hit her there and she decided to contact a divorce attorney. She was 28 and did not know how divorce worked. A friend connected her with a well-known Seattle divorce attorney. The attorney asked how much she could put down that day. She offered $1,500. He accepted that amount, filled out the paperwork that day, and did not charge her for the meeting. She then told her ex she was filing and that papers would be sent for him to review and sign. He asked whether they were sure they wanted to do that. She replied that the decision was made when he “scurried off into the darkness of the night.” Washington requires a 90-day waiting period. She took another travel assignment at her home hospital so she could stay in the state, rented a basement room from a woman she knew from church, and worked nights. They sold the trailer during the process. The divorce became final on April 9, which she called her divorce anniversary. @ktooley89 I could chat your ear off all day#nurse #storytime #travelnurse #nurselife #nursesoftiktok ♬ original sound – Karlie Tooley | Nurse | Mom She then wanted to leave Washington and return to California. She signed a six-month apartment lease and lined up another 13-week contract. While driving through Oregon with her dog, her recruiter called and said the hospital was canceling all travel nurses. The company would not help with the lease because she had arranged housing on her own. She arrived in California with no job and began cold-calling. A plastic surgery center hired her as an on-call nurse, trained her on the spot despite her lack of OR, pre-op, and PACU experience, and let her work about 40 hours a week so she could pay bills. She later applied there as a staff nurse. During the same period, she began seeing a man 10 years older. She dated him for about two years, met his family, spent holidays with him, and traveled out of the country with him. She later learned he was doing the same things with another woman. She then went to therapy once a week for almost a year. Deception in relationships can take many forms, as when a TikTok story described a man and woman married for seven years until she found a handwritten note that changed everything. When she later met the man she is married to now, she was nervous to tell him about her past. He told her she was amazing and that he admired her. After she moved into the California apartment with no job, she received a letter from the Seattle attorney. She expected a bill. The envelope held a $1,500 check and a note that said, “go have a great life.” She described him as having handled the divorce essentially without charging her beyond the initial payment. Viewers reacting to the second video left comments about the account. One person wrote, “My husband was a loser too. Sued me for $8000 a month alimony.” Another wrote, “Ummmm girl this is better than books I have read!” A third commented, “That he was surprised that you weren’t alone, makes me wonder what he had planned. And the audacity he had to say that YOU blindsided HIM!” Others wrote, “girl, that is WILD!” and “Sounds like he was scared of grandpa.” One commenter said, “My ex-husband told me and our two young children he wanted a divorce on our third day of vacation at Disney. Men are just ruthless.” For the nurse, the shock of betrayal wasn’t unique, as an LA woman discovered her fiancé was already married.