Cheating on a loved one is difficult to forgive. Especially when he or she betrayed you at a critical moment. A woman told redditors that her spouse cheated on her when she was recovering from childbirth. She is now ready to exact revenge on her spouse.”I discovered SMS that my spouse exchanged with a woman while using a connected iPad. It turned out that his affair began when I was postpartum. I adore him, and it felt like my heart was torn into a million pieces.
I knew I couldn’t let this go and forgive him, but my curiosity got the better of me. I wanted to know why. I wanted to know what she possessed that I did not. So I became hooked with reading every conversation they’d had. He felt alive again. He was upbeat and thrilled. She was unmarried and childless, so she had plenty of time to make him a priority. He felt seen and desired by her, but I was preoccupied with the arrival of our baby and did not pay him as much attention as before.”
She added: “I still had access to the texts they exchanged on our shared tablet, but he was unaware of it.” I read thousands of communications between them till I devised a terrible plot. I began to embody all of his fantasies. It felt strange at first, and he was confused, but I simply kept going. Every time he made plans with her, I found a means to keep him or ensured that he arrived fatigued.
The messaging between them became less frequent, and the intensity and enthusiasm seemed to fade with time. Soon, answering her became a chore for my spouse. She began complaining. He started to pull away. He felt happy at home. He began texting me again throughout the day, claiming he couldn’t wait to get home to me. The kindest texts about how he missed me. He was his old self again.
One day, what I had planned and carefully waited for happened. He ended things with her. He told her he still loved me. Her services were not required, in other terms. I was relieved, and I could now proceed with my second strategy.”She went on to say: “In the meantime, I’ve found an apartment for my baby and me, organized everything, and prepared for custody. Shared or not.
I divided the money and transferred my portion to a third account, where it will remain until the divorce proceedings and asset division are completed. Now I’m prepared for my divorce. He will receive the paperwork on the day I depart for my new life with my baby in my new apartment. I know I’ll receive a lot of flak for this because I ‘neglected’ my husband and pushed him to seek solace in another woman’s arms when I could have given him what he wanted all along. However, in my defense, I did not do it on purpose.
Our lives had just changed dramatically with the arrival of our baby, and I was attempting to navigate this new and wonderful chapter. I was caught up in this new type of happiness that I thought I was sharing with him. And I was attempting to come to know my new body, which I could no longer identify. He could have come to me with his pain. He could have told me about his pain. He could have tried to help me comprehend, but he chose not to. He chose to deceive me. “He ruined our love and future together.”