I think it’s hard enough to find it in your heart for forgiveness when one person in your inner circle double-crosses you, let alone two. How would you react if you found out that your spouse and sibling slept together? Would you be working on forgiveness, or burning everything to the ground?
This woman knows that what she’s about to say sounds completely unhinged, but sadly, her life has turned into something ripped right out of an episode of The Jerry Springer Show.
Now, she has an 18-year-old sister, and back when her sister was 13, their parents got divorced, leaving her to be her sister’s surrogate mom.
“[I] took her in, raised her, did everything. I work [remotely], and I’ve been the main provider for our whole household this entire time,” she explained.
“I have a husband and a toddler who just turned 4. I thought we were good. I genuinely thought we were fine. Found out my husband and my sister have been having an affair, and apparently, it’s not even just physical.”
“They fell in love. He’s 39. The thing is, I can’t explain this away as oh, he was always a cheater because he wasn’t. We never had problems like this. No third parties, no red flags, nothing. And my sister is not someone I ever had to worry about, so I’m just sitting here like… how. When. Why?”
She promptly kicked both her husband and sister out of the house as soon as she learned the sordid truth about what the two of them have been doing behind her back.
Adding to the insanity, her entire family is not on her side! They have all been slamming her for being too mean to her sister since she’s basically still a kid.
She not only raised her sister, but she’s also been the one paying for her entire life, so the pain and suffering the affair is causing her is off the charts.
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She’s doing her best to keep it together so she can care for her preschooler, but it’s a Herculean effort not to come undone. She’s left wondering what she can do, and if it’s possible to bounce back from this.
“How do you even approach forgiveness for two people at once?” she asked.
Well, as someone who has cut people out of my life for far less than this, I do think she needs to ditch her sister and her husband for such a massive betrayal.
There is no room for forgiveness, and shame on her family for trying to portray her as the villain in this one. Maybe she needs to grab the scissors and start snipping a whole bunch of her loved ones out of her life.
She needs to find a lawyer and a therapist ASAP and start trying to deal with the grief and trauma, which is sure to hit her after the shock wears off.
What advice do you have for her?
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