He Found Out His Wife Had Been Cheating With Her Old Boyfriend Throughout Their Entire Marriage, So He Waited Out Their Prenup Term Before Filing For Divorce
This man and his wife had been married for eight years when he learned that she’d been having an affair with her ex-boyfriend throughout their entire marriage.
She’d been with her ex from high school through college, whom she loved deeply and her parents despised.
“Her parents finally told her they would cut her off financially if she stayed with him. We met soon afterward, and I fell in love. She did not. My wife settled for me. I didn’t know it when I married her, but I do now,” he said.
Before they married, her parents persuaded them to sign a prenup. Since he wanted to be married for the rest of their lives, he had no issue with this plan.
According to the prenup terms, he wouldn’t get much of anything if they divorced before a decade of marriage.
From then on, as long as he wasn’t the cause of the divorce, everything would be equally divided.
When he found out his wife had been cheating for eight years, he was understandably devastated and furious.
“I had spent eight years supporting her and her career. She has a much better-paying job than I do. It is high profile, and she deals with our government a lot. I decided that I could handle two years of infidelity,” he explained.
His rationalization was that since his wife hadn’t been faithful for their entire marriage so far, he could handle waiting two years to file for divorce.
Andrey_Arkusha – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
So, on their tenth wedding anniversary, he filed for divorce. They’d gone on vacation before this, and he allowed his wife’s parents to pay for the trip.
He didn’t do anything petty like send her parents the proof of his wife’s affair. Instead, he went through the usual process of hiring a lawyer to draft the divorce papers. They included proof that he was filing after ten years of marriage so the assets would be equally split.
“She said that I blindsided her after our holiday away. She doesn’t understand why I would do it. I said I just don’t think we are compatible anymore. I am prepared to go nuclear if I have to,” he shared.
Even though he verified that he’s the father of their children, he doesn’t want custody of them since his wife cheated before and after they had kids together. He has the proof of his wife’s affair, and he knows her ex-boyfriend is married and that he could destroy their marriage with the proof if he wanted to.
If he did this, his wife’s parents would be furious with her once they found out. In his view, it was a good idea to wait to file for divorce until they’d been officially married for a decade so that he would have more money to go toward child support.
What would you have done if you were in his shoes?
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