We married October 26, 2001. In January 2003, I would discover he was having an affair with a woman he built a home for with his company. Back then we didn’t have the social media we do now or texting to prove it. I only had a cell phone bill with her number all over it. She was married with small children. He denied it all but I knew. I was told, “Get over it or get out.” I stayed. I also made the mistake of, after seeing her number twice more on the bill, running to my ex fiance and having an affair. I was now just as guilty as my husband.
My ex was a builder for a local company and he loved what he did. In the fall of 2007 he was promoted to GM and they moved him to Indiana from Ohio. He was traveling 4 hours every weekend to come home. We were not getting along and we talked about splitting. I was not happy and I told him that. He acted as though he couldn’t see the problem.
In the fall of 2008, the company’s location was closing in Indiana and they moved him to South Carolina. He had a week to pack and he was gone. Once he left things miraculously changed. He loved the beach and sent me a picture of a heart he drew in the sand. I remained in Ohio with all the kids. He would travel home once a month and the opposite months I would fly to see him. It was wonderful when I went to visit him. It was like we were dating again, just the two of us and the sex was incredible!
We made the decision after six months that I would move with my daughter to join him. Things went well for awhile then, as a few years passed, I noticed the changes. He was right back the way he was before. Both of us were struggling and sought out medical help, and when he went on medication things again seemed to be on level ground with our marriage.
During our marriage we had both packed on the pounds and then lost them. We were trying to live healthier lifestyles. He decided with his “new” body he didn’t want to take his medication anymore, and things went downhill from there.
In August 2013 he took a business trip. He came home and told me to sit down as he had to tell me something. He then told me a story about how he, his two builders and his female sales rep and his sales coordinator (just hired a month before the trip) went out one night. All were married except one builder. The sales lady went back to the room and the others went out to another place. My husband told me that he dropped the men off after midnight, but the next day one of the men didn’t arrive back until 4 AM, implying that he was with the customer coordinator. I didn’t know what to say, the story didn’t seem to make sense. My husband was the only one with a room alone, and my gut told me he was the one who ended up with the woman, and that he was trying to cover his own ass and hide his secret.
I left for an overseas trip in October.
We didn’t discuss divorce before my trip. When I left he ended up getting caught rolling in at 4 AM by my daughter and things spiraled from there. We didn’t talk the 10 days I was gone. When he picked me up at the airport he said we were done. No explanation. I cried all the way home and for weeks after trying to unravel what had just happened.
Late one night before I moved out, I decided to drive past his work when he told me he had a business dinner. I saw the two cars in his work parking lot. I eventually found the texts between the two of them on his work phone.
When I moved he signed my lease so I could use his income to help me rent. When I met with the broker who was leasing me the home, he told me his story of how his ex wife cheated on him and took his entire $10,000 savings. I asked the broker her name – and the brokers ex-wife was my husbands mistress! She had remarried and had a small son. In a town of over 10,000 people I end up renting a home from her ex husband. F my life as they say. I broke the lease and moved and did not tell my husband where I went.
In January 2014 I got a promotion at work and met a lady a floor below who works in a different practice for the same company. Guess who she is? HER MOTHER! I could not make this shit up if I tried. I have never even told her what her daughter did. It’s been hard at times as I so want to tell her.
He gave me excuses of why he cheated. One was my weight. I was heavier but not huge. The woman he cheated on me with is a larger woman, much larger than I am. I was shocked. She is also 12 years younger. She remains married and working for him yet they are not together, or so he says. I ran into her in a restaurant several months ago, she looked at the floor. I did not approach her, she is not worth it.
This month my company took over the lease at my ex’s old building, the same place he had sex in. I am applying to transfer to that building. Does it bother me? Not at all.
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Delilah says
Is this supposed to be a true story? Or fiction?
Also, what’s with the body shaming? Are you under the impression that someone who is bigger than you is not desirable?
Ex wife says
Obviously you didn’t read the article. She was NOT body shaming she was poibring out he had said she had gained weight and that is one of the reasons he left. Then he was having an affair with a larger woman which surprised her. I think you need to re-read this before jumping to conclusions.
Shelly W. says
Well after reading this among the other articles on here, it is safe to say the author didn’t do a very good job of telling the truth. These articles are full of embellishment and just plain untruth. I thought this website was to help women through divorce?? Not to spread lies. In some articles you even reveal the identity of the people you are referring to in the falsified story. Shame on you…
Shelly W. says
Why did you delete my comment?? No retort?