She Told Her Husband If They Don't Move, They're Getting A Divorce Because She Can't Stand Him Doing More For Their Female Neighbor Than He Does For Her

Many women start to worry their marriages are over when their husband starts prioritizing the needs of another woman over theirs. Unfortunately, some men are good at gaslighting and making their wives believe they're crazy when they start noticing this behavior.

One woman has been telling her husband she wants to move ever since he became close with their next-door neighbors and started doing more things for the woman next door than he did for her.

She and her husband moved into a new home in June 2023 while she was pregnant with their first baby. Not long after moving in, her husband became very friendly with their neighbors, who were also expecting a baby.

"Every single day, we were being invited out on their boat or over to have BBQ with them," she said.

"It bothered me a great deal, honestly, because every time I said I didn't want to go, my husband would pretty much force his hand and guilt me into going, and I was pregnant and simply didn't want to be around anyone."

Whenever she wanted to stay home, her husband would tell her he'd look like a bad husband if he went alone.

However, whenever she did join her husband for outings with the neighbors, she noticed that, if anything, her husband looked like a bad husband to her but not to their neighbor's pregnant wife.

Her husband would continuously do more things for their pregnant neighbor than he would his own wife.

For instance, during a day on their neighbor's boat, the two men stopped at a store right on their lake to get snacks. She only asked for one specific soda, while the neighbor's wife asked for a bunch of items.

Andrey_Arkusha - stock.adobe.com - illustrative purposes only, not the actual person

When the men returned, her husband was carrying four to five different snacks for their neighbor but "forgot" to grab her soda and refused to get back in line to get it.

"If we are standing by the fire pit, he will ask the other wife if she needs a seat before he asks me," she explained.

"If he sees her grilling food, he will be like, 'Let me do that for you,' but if he sees me cooking, he never offers to take over. He also takes all the garbage to the dump for her, despite her having a husband who can do it. He'll take out their dog [or] keep an eye on her kids so she can go to the store [while] I have only taken literally ten showers without the baby since I gave birth six months ago. I don't think anything is going on, but I know for an absolute fact that he's trying to look like a superhero, super-dad [and] super-husband to her when he's actually not."

She feels that her husband has abandoned her for their neighbor and is disgusted by the way he loves getting positive attention from her for doing things he doesn't do for his own family.

Recently, she tried telling him that all of this behavior bothered her, and he became super defensive.

"He doesn't think he's doing anything wrong because he's just 'helping people out,' but it's been dragging me [down]," she admitted.

"Every time I see him do anything for her, I start resenting him more because it's every single day. Every single time I watch him walk over to their house and talk to them while I'm inside cooking [and] parenting destroys me. I told him last night that if we didn't move out of here, I would end up divorcing him."

Her husband thinks she's being ridiculous and defends his actions by insisting that he's not actually cheating on her. While she knows that, it doesn't help anything, as he's continuing to hurt her.

Her husband told her they could not afford to move and clarified that he doesn't plan on stopping what he's doing.

What would you do if you were in her position?

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