There is a classic rule in the world of cheating: if they’ll do it with you, they’ll do it to you. Her fiancé thought he found a better pregnancy experience with his affair partner following her miscarriage, only to realize he was being played.
And if you don’t believe in karma, this story might just make you change your mind on that because the universe seems to have foreclosed on this man’s ego.
This 27-year-old woman spent over two years with her 34-year-old fiancé, H. They were absolutely painting a picture of their shared future, organizing their wedding, searching for a house to buy, and doing everything that engaged couples do.
Her fiancé was full of patience and kindness, but after they hit their two-year anniversary, it was like a switch flipped. He began to pull away from her and started to put his phone facing down when they spent time together.
One day, they got into a blowout fight about leasing a larger apartment when their lease ended that same month, and he sprung it on her that he had to take some time apart.
He hopped into his car and vanished for two entire weeks without calling or texting her once. She was pregnant at the time and had planned on surprising her fiancé with the news, but he disappeared before she got the opportunity to do that.
Several days after her fiancé went missing, she experienced heavy bleeding and cramps, so she went to the doctor and was told she miscarried her baby.
“I was alone through all of it. I tried calling and texting H and was met with no response. When I finally hear from him, he tells me we need to meet up and talk, so we meet at a park in our town,” she explained.
“He proceeds to tell me he knows I had a miscarriage (his friend’s sister works at my OB) and that he has been distressed for days, and that he wanted to be a father so bad, and I took that from him. He began to verbally berate me for about 20 minutes, throwing every insult at me that you can think of.”
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“He breaks off our engagement, tells me to keep the ring as he doesn’t want anything to remind him of me, and gets in his car and leaves. I was devastated, and left heartbroken to deal with the loss of my child, my relationship, and finding a new place to live alone.”
Afterwards, she heard through the grapevine that H was telling everyone cruel lies about her. Then, she was told by a mutual friend that H had been having an affair with another woman for the final five months of their relationship.
She ended up moving out of state and has spent the last two years picking up the pieces. Last Thanksgiving, she went home to see her friends and family, and that same mutual friend informed her that her ex-fiancé, H, had gotten his affair partner pregnant.
She did feel sad about it, but mainly because she wished for this girl to have a very different pregnancy experience than she had with H.
“Well, I found out this week that the woman he was dating was cheating on him [throughout] their entire relationship with her ex. Not only that, THE BABY ISN’T HIS,” she continued.
“Apparently, he is devastated and depressed and hasn’t left his home since the day after Christmas (when they got the paternity results).”
“But as for me? I am so happy (giddy, some would say) at his pain. I do feel a little guilty about being so happy, but at the same time, I feel as though it’s the universe paying him back for what he did to me.”
Usually, closure is something you have to grind for in therapy, but sometimes the universe just hands it to you in a gift-wrapped box.
Karma really does come back to bite certain people, and I hope this can help her move on and put her horrible ex behind her for good.
What do you think? Is schadenfreude (joy in another’s misfortune) actually a healthy stage of healing?
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By Bre Avery Zacharski
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