A heartbroken woman has shared how she is divorcing her husband after discovering he has been sleeping around and spreading an STD to her and his other lovers
A woman has shared her heartache after discovering her husband has not only been cheating on her but also gave her an STD. She explained how she and her husband decided to start trying for a baby after five years of marriage – but she came to learn she wasn’t the only one he was having regular sex with.
Taking to Reddit, she said: “I thought it was a great relationship. We’d had our problems but so does every couple, and we always resolved them. I was fully under the impression that we had a strong, faithful marriage.
“I was wrong. A month ago I was sent a photo message from a friend. They were in a bar and had spotted my husband with a young woman in his lap. When he came home I confronted him and he came clean about a string of affairs that made me sick to my stomach.”
She discovered her husband had been hitting up chatrooms for women before meeting them in hotels for a ‘night of passion’. She added: “He reluctantly showed me tapes he’d made of himself and women in our bed, as well as messages such as “I have a girl but she’ll never know”. I just felt humiliated and worthless.
“As if that wasn’t bad enough, there was another thing. I’ve been trying to get pregnant for over a year. To my horror, he told me the sex he’d had with these women was unprotected. All of it. Because it ‘felt hotter’.”
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She booked in for an STD check the next day – and was horrified to discover she’d tested positive. “I’m undergoing some treatment for it but I’m absolutely furious at my husband for what he’s done,” she said. “Safe to say I’m divorcing him.
“I have to keep some level of contact with him for the proceedings, but they’re mostly through my lawyer, given that he wouldn’t stop blowing up my phone with crying voice notes before I blocked him. During our in-person meetings he does nothing but pout and try to manipulate me, to the extent that his own lawyer carefully interjected and said ‘listen, I think she’s made her choice’.
Seeking advice, she has taken to Reddit to ask users how she should handle things moving forward. She added: “I need some advice on how I should best deal him. I hate him, but I can’t not speak with him considering the divorce proceedings.
“We have a joint bank account which we both need to go to close down. I also own our home and he’s moved out, but he’ll have to come back sometime to get his crap. I feel like he’ll act like a simpering idiot every time but I don’t care to argue, so I just want to ask how I should confidently and maturely deal with him until such time that I can go no contact and never have to deal with him again.”
In response, one user said: “You can not – not talk to – you have a lawyer for a reason! Stop talking to him! Everything should go through your lawyer.” Another user added: “Have the lawyer set up a time that he can pick up stuff. Get then have someone be at the house instead of you or have him set up a moving company to handle his items and deliver them.” A third user said: “That’s terrible – I’m so sorry this happened. It’s like people have it all and it’s not enough.”
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