Finding out your spouse is cheating might just make you do things you never thought you were capable of. I’m sure that most people fantasize about revenge and don’t act on it, but she did, and spent the better part of a year paying for it while her kid started a whole new chapter of his life without her there to cheer him on.
Now she’s out, he’s home for the summer, and she has one real shot at this conversation. How does she even start?
For the last eleven months, this 49-year-old woman has been sitting in prison, trying to figure out how to make amends with her 19-year-old son.
But let’s rewind to what exactly happened that landed her behind bars and caused her to miss out on key moments in her son’s life.
“So my husband (53) cheated on me with a 32-year-old woman, and I made the mistake of stealing his mistress’s car and pushing it off a cliff (nobody was inside, obviously, but the car got totaled),” she explained.
“This happened last summer. I got arrested within days of having done that and taken to the local jail. I was held until my trial, and ultimately took a deal to serve 2 years in prison.”
She served six total months in jail and then the next five months in prison, but she got released early a couple of weeks ago.
Yes, she still is on probation, which means she’s going directly back to prison in the event she can’t keep herself out of trouble for the following year.
“I did NOT divorce my husband and we did make up but my son (19) is still upset with what I did as I missed his going off to college and I want to know how to make it up to him and since he goes to college like a 4 hour drive away we didn’t see each other yet in person since I got released (but will do so soon as it’s summer now so no college obviously),” she added.
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“He is especially sad because this was out of character. I had never broken the law before, I was never violent or aggressive, and was a regular mom with a 9-5 job in the upper middle class (Luckily, I got it back and am on my feet, so I am not messed up there.”
“How can I get through this and make it up to him?”
Well, she’s already lost a significant chunk of time with her son and skipped out on a milestone that was important to him, and there’s nothing she can do to get back that lost time or those sacrificed memories.
Her son’s anger should be directed at her husband for putting her in a situation where she felt like getting revenge in the first place, so maybe family therapy can help with all of this.
However, she should focus on trying to move forward now and spending the time she can with her son while showing him that she has taken accountability for her actions, which is admirable.
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