After years of dealing with her husband’s mistress, one woman says it’s hard to pretend to care now that she’s died.
A scorned woman has taken to the social media platform Reddit to share that while her husband’s mistress has died, she feels a lack of emotion and isn’t sure if she’s in the right for it. She detailed the tricky situation for readers.
She said: “We’ve been married for over a decade, but at some point, I found out he’d been cheating on me for three years with an ex (his first love whose parents didn’t let them get married). She tried to break up our wedding and his whole family kept that a secret from me up until the affair had been revealed.
“To keep it short a lot of s— went down and she said some really vicious and awful things to me. She absolutely hated me and thought I didn’t deserve her man, that I’m ugly and I smell and so much other stuff.
“We ended up staying together, for the kids. I’m still healing and don’t think the love will ever be the same for my husband, but I chose to forgive and maintain normalcy for the sake of my kids.”
Things between the woman and her husband have been going as planned as they raise their children together, but she said that something shocking happened recently.
“Things are going ok. However, I was informed by a mutual friend that the woman passed away a few days ago (we are all under 35 so it’s definitely kind of shocking) and the person who told me knows the hell I went thru and the emotional turmoil (but they’ve never been cheated on so they’d never really know how it feels) and is going on about how bizarre it is and they feel terrible and asking me if I’m ok.
“I’m not sure if the purpose is to illicit a reaction from me or if they’re genuinely concerned? I have no emotional ties to this woman nor do I feel I owe her anything.
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“He found out this morning and said something like well you’re probably not sad… I was like if you had left me for her and received such news would you expect her to be sad for me? AITA (am I the a——) for not being devastated or even really that upset?
“He literally left the house leaving me with two screaming kids to make a private phone call to her brother-in-law to find out what happened, is that not supposed to get under my skin?”
Social media users left their two cents in the comments section of the post. One individual said: “Your best strategy is to act indifferent. Don’t get angry w/your husband. Just ignore his upset. If anyone asks you about how you feel, just tell them aside from you knowing she hated you, you didn’t really know her at all.
“In about a month or so, you should tell your husband you want a divorce & tell him he never had a right to destroy your marriage with his s—. Then walk away.”
Another Reddit user chimed in: “I think you should just be extraordinarily happy around the house, especially when he is around. Sing happily to yourself. Maybe sing the Wizard of Oz song about the wicked witch being dead. Maybe record it and play it on a loop. THAT would be a reaction!”
And someone else said: “NTA (Not the a——). You can’t reconcile if he is still planning on going to find out what happened and going to the funeral. Yeah no thanks. The only reason I would upset that my ex’s ap died is because she’s my sister.”
