After She Found Out That Her Husband Was Having An Affair With Her Cousin, She Waited Six Months To Tell Her Family So Her Grandparents Would Take Away Her Cousin’s Inheritance And Give It To Her
In this woman’s family, her grandparents provide all of their grandchildren with enough money to purchase a home after their college graduations. The grandchildren have to pay for their own college educations.
Her older brother graduated with a bit of student loan debt, and once he paid it off, he had enough money to offer 50% of a down payment on a home. He also had enough money saved for an emergency fund.
She felt fortunate because she received both a scholarship and a bursary from her dad’s workplace. After graduation from college, she purchased a small home conveniently near public transportation so she could commute to work by train.
Several years later, she met the man who would become her husband. At their wedding, her husband met her cousin, Yvonne, who is incredibly pretty. Even though she’s confident about her own looks and doesn’t think she’s hideous, Yvonne is stunning.
“They started an affair about three months after the wedding. I found out because they are both stupid. I was hurt. But more than that, I was furious,” she said.
Her husband and Yvonne often texted each other throughout their affair, and he deleted the conversations from his phone. She and her husband shared a tablet, and his text exchanges with Yvonne showed up on the tablet before he deleted them off his phone. So, she was able to screenshot the texts to have for evidence in case her husband or Yvonne tried to deny their affair.
Once she discovered that her husband and Yvonne were engaging in an affair, her initial instinct was to file for divorce and kick her husband out of the house. However, she didn’t act for nearly half a year. A month before Yvonne graduated from college, she met up with her grandparents and cried hysterically.
She explained she’d only recently discovered that her husband and Yvonne were having an affair and that she was devastated her own cousin could do something like that. Her grandparents let her stay at their house for a couple of weeks. During that time, her husband tried to contact her, but she ignored him. Her grandma also assisted her with finding a divorce lawyer.
“My cousin has basically been shunned by the family now. My house was a premarital asset and was covered in our prenup. I gave my ex one month to move out,” she explained.
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Her grandparents have traditional views about family and marriage and were furious that Yvonne was engaging in an affair. Even though her grandparents knew they couldn’t undo Yvonne’s actions, they wanted to express their anger. They decided to give her the money they intended to give Yvonne.
Since Yvonne had been counting on money from her grandparents, she took out student loans for college assuming that she could easily pay them back after graduation. The field Yvonne studied wouldn’t provide her with a lucrative career like studying in STEM, so after graduation, it wasn’t likely that she’d earn a lot of money from her job.
When she confronted her now ex-husband and told him he needed to move out, he pleaded with her to reconsider, claiming he was in love with her. She told him that he wouldn’t have had an affair if he truly was in love with her.
Regardless of what her ex claimed, she didn’t believe he loved her. In her opinion, he only pleaded for her to allow him to continue living with her because he knew how much this would negatively affect his finances. Her aunt and uncle were enraged that she contributed to their daughter no longer receiving her money.
“I want to be clear here. It was never my intention to take her money. I just wanted our grandparents not to give it to her. Me getting it was just frosting on the cake,” she shared.
Most of her family members have sided with her, and they don’t think it’s wise to publicly go against her grandparents’ decision to give her Yvonne’s money. She put the money in her retirement account, and the divorce is underway but not yet finalized.
Luckily, her soon-to-be ex-husband already moved out of her house. She no longer has a relationship with Yvonne.
Upon reflection, she feels awful that she didn’t tell her ex and Yvonne right away that she knew about their affair, and she feels bad that she got her grandparents involved in the drama. Now, she worries that she has crossed the line.
What would you have done if you had been in her shoes?
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