Her Husband Spent $6,500 On A Mobile Game, And Also Started Flirting With A Woman He Met Through It
This woman has been with her husband for 20 years and married for 17 of them. Overall, their marriage is everything anyone could dream of.
Additionally, she and her husband adore spending time together. He actually works for her, so they’re around one another continuously, and they love this.
Approximately three or four years ago, her husband found a game on his phone that he enjoyed playing.
At first, she assumed it was an innocuous game, but then he became completely obsessed with it.
Her husband stayed up until all hours playing the game and started sleeping on the couch located in their basement.
Now, she says the basement is basically his room since he never sleeps in their shared bedroom anymore.
“This past year has been the worst of our marriage,” she explained. “He has become angry, short-tempered, and often raises his voice at me.”
“He stays up all night and sleeps through most of the next day, sometimes even wearing the same clothes for days at a time. He’s distant and disconnected from what used to be a shared life. It feels like he’s always somewhere else.”
“His work has suffered, and I’ve had to cover for him. My family and friends have noticed, too, and I’ve made excuses for him. I thought we were going through a rough patch and that if I waited it out, things would eventually improve.”
Volodymyr – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
A week ago, her husband was fast asleep on the couch when she saw he got a text message. She read it, and it was from a woman she never heard of.
This woman didn’t just send her husband one message – they had tons and tons of texts exchanged.
She woke her husband up and confronted him, and he admitted this woman was someone he had met through his mobile game.
He actually got mad at her for being upset with him, so he stormed down to the basement and slammed the door behind him.
The following day, he attempted to tell her that she was being overdramatic about this woman. Since her husband’s phone is paid for by her business, she accessed his text and call logs to see what he was up to.
“There were two-hour-long text sessions with hundreds of messages, and these were happening regularly,” she said.
“While there weren’t many calls, the few that existed lasted up to 70 minutes, often in the middle of the night.”
“When I confronted him again, he claimed he didn’t remember the calls, even though one had been just two weeks earlier. He said it was related to the game, where players sometimes wake each other to get online.”
From there, she uncovered online messages her husband sent to this woman, and they were super flirty. This woman recorded herself singing suggestive songs and sent them to her husband as well.
She’s spent the last week showing him the increasing evidence she gathered while he keeps denying that he did anything wrong.
“He always has excuses, even for texts and calls that no longer appear on his phone but are clearly listed in the usage logs,” she added.
“I also asked if he spent money on the game. Initially, he said “hundreds,” but when I checked his bank account — we added each other to our accounts when we married — I discovered that over the past 30 months, he had spent $6,500 on the game.”
Her husband finally deleted the game from this phone, and he blocked and deleted this other woman after she insisted he do that.
Ever since her husband has apologized and said he does love her. He maintains he got invested in the game and the culture of it all, and that he was not attempting to do anything wrong.
“While I believe he’s genuinely sorry now, I’m struggling to trust him moving forward,” she continued.
“If I hadn’t found out, who knows how far this would have gone? At this point, I’m less worried about this woman and more concerned about his self-control and his ability to live a responsible adult life.”
“I’m feeling an overwhelming mix of emotions — depression, sadness, anxiety, fear, loneliness, and grief, with anger being the least of them. I don’t want a divorce unless it’s the last option. I don’t want to throw away 20 years of my life unless there’s no other choice. But right now, I feel like I don’t have any good options.”
What advice do you have for her?
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