A Redditor had found out that her husband was cheating on her with her best friend, and shared the story on the Reddit’s “Truth Off My Chest” subreddit. The woman had shared that she was with her husband since she was 19 years old. Her husband was 22 at the time their relationship started, and they were married for six years, with two kids, and the third one in OP’s belly.
As she was happy that their family would grow larger, she was devastated with her father’s cancer diagnosis. She had one parent, and that was her father. He was diagnosed with colon cancer, and he was not reacting to the treatment he was receiving. The doctors stated that he had months to live.
“My husband has been my absolute rock. He has been there for me holding my hand and helping me through this. He’s been so loving and attentive to both my kids and me,” OP shared in her post.
As she was feeling terrible about her father, she was focusing on her children so they wouldn’t be affected from the situation with their grandfather. She was also a dotting wife to her husband too, as she was not letting anything go in their house, in terms of work.
She also had her childhood friend with her, as she described, “My best friend and I have been friends since diapers. Her family is like my family and vice versa,” the OP wrote.
As OP wake up one morning, to care for her sick three years old child, she saw that her husband’s phone alarm was on. As he was going to stay at home that day, she wanted to help her husband, so he would sleep, and she took the phone to turn it off.
Then she saw a text from her best friend, in her husband’s phone. “I’m assuming since there hasn’t been an angry pregnant lady on my doorstep, you haven’t told her about us yet?”
OP was shocked and devastated, as she learned that her husband was cheating on her with her best friend. They were having an affair for four months. OP decided to go on as she saw nothing to go deeper into the situation.
She acted as if she saw nothing. She was acting as her normal self, asking her husband how was his day, etc.
She was also didn’t let her children know too. But she was shocked that her husband and her best friend never showed any kind of affection to one another, and she never felt that something was off between them.
As OP shared that she needs time to confront, she wanted to live peaceful until her father was gone, to talk with her husband. For her friend, “After today, I will cut her out of my life like she never mattered at all,” OP said.
As OP received a lot of support from other Reddit users, she had updated her post soon after. The woman had explained that she talked with her mother-in-law about the affair, and her best friend’s mother.
She had sent them the screenshots of the message she saw. The two old woman immediately started to apologize from the pregnant OP, as they saw the messages. They had gathered together, cried and hugged to one another.
OP shared the conversation she had with her mother-in-law as, “That no matter what happens, I will always have her, and as far as she’s concerned, she doesn’t have a son, only a daughter.”
Then, OP hired a lawyer and started the divorce process. The lawyer had explained that her husband wouldn’t get anything from her father’s inheritance. As OP didn’t talked with her husband yet, she is focusing on her children, as her in-laws are supporting her.
A Redditor had commented, “The fact that you have the unequivocal support of the families of the people who betrayed you is touching. Often families side with the betrayer if they are family and not the betrayed. Morality is one of the rare things that can trump family.”
Then OP had gave another update, which was shocking to learn. OP explained that she had tested herself for STDs/STIs, and she had no health issues as the results are suggesting. She had prepared every legal and financial documents with her lawyer, and her in-laws had ensured that she is supported.
The cheating husband was furious when he learned that their affair was surfaced, and attacked to the best friend of OP. When he returned home, he saw that his wife and children were gone, as they took their belongings with them. The best friend had cried to her parents, as she apologized.
Then husband was arrested, after he had bashed the front door of OP’s father’s house.
As OP refused to settle with her husband, OP received support from her in-laws and the brother of her ex-best friend, Jake.
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