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I hope you enjoy this story. Spouse betrayed me with their former partner. I publicly shamed them

in front of their relatives and handed them separation documents. I never imagined I would experience

such a situation. In my own life, which I was used to hearing from different people or maybe on

social media, but going through something like that in reality can shatter your world.

I'm a simple man and work as a professor at a university. I have been married to my wife,

Lilac, for 10 years. We have two sons. I met her at a party where my aunt suggested that my mother

that I should ask Lilac out for a date. I was never interested in dating, so I never really dated as

I was always preoccupied with my PhD and my education. But after seeing Lilac, I was mesmerized by

her beauty, and just like her name, she looked soft as a flower. My parents were nagging at me for

a long time to get married, so I asked Lilac out. Our parents had already interacted with each other

at the party, and they dearly wanted both of us to get married. The first date was amazing.

She was fun to be around, and she was doing dental at that time. We ended updating for a year

and we got married. Now it's been 10 years. Our daily lives were pretty much normal. She was a great

mother and wife. I never felt any problem in my life after her arrival, and she took great care of

me, but that was only the start, and I never knew that curiosity would take me to an unexpected

turn after 10 years. Knowing about her past would have helped me depangle the knots that I never

really tried to know. Things were going smoothly, and never in 10 years of marriage had I doubted

her until one month ago, and on a random day, things turned very rough for both of us.

Maybe it was me who was creating assumptions in my head, or maybe she was hiding something because

I never had any sort of negative view of her before. It was one evening when she came back from

her clinic at a very unusual time. I tried calling her, but she didn't respond to my calls. At first,

I thought maybe she had a lot of patience today, so I called the receptionist at her clinic.

She told me that Lylic didn't come to the clinic that day, which made me curious and tense.

I was very anxious, thinking about what might have happened. I couldn't sleep at all it was past

midnight when she came inside, looking really tired. I was going to ask her why she took a

leave today. Before I could even say a word, she walked past me and said she had lots of patience

today and she wanted to sleep. After hearing her lie to my face and meanwhile knowing the truth,

I just sat there on the couch anxiously, thinking about what could be the reason behind her lie,

and that was something new. I was irritated and annoyed by this, but then I decided to try to

sleep because it was already late and I had worked tomorrow. I went inside the room and saw her

wearing her office clothes with her legs hanging from the bed. I took her in my arms and laid her

properly. What could have been worse than realizing your wife, who never touched alcohol in ten

years of marriage, wreaked badly of alcohol? I covered her with a blanket and looked at her face.

She was sleeping peacefully and unbothered. I wanted to avoid any kind of conversation in the

morning, so I left for work early in the morning. I couldn't sleep at all because I kept thinking about

it. I had to prepare question papers for my students upcoming exam, so I thought waking her up in

the morning would be a bad idea as it would lead to stress and arguments for both of us.

I came back from work and saw her car in the parking lot. While petting my cat on the front porch,

I saw Lilac through the window. She was texting someone, smiling and blushing.

As soon as I went inside, she immediately put her phone aside and started helping our elder son,

James, with his homework. She always hugged me and kissed me, and this time her smile faded

after looking at me. She greeted me with a rough hello, which sounded uninteresting. It was very

awkward to face such an unusual thing in just one day. Later in the evening, I asked her to bring

me a warm cup of coffee. She had the cup of coffee in one hand and was texting someone with another,

smiling. I looked over at her once and then looked away. But my second look saved our younger

son, Max, from getting burned with the coffee on his head all while her mother was busy texting

someone, God knows who. I shouted at Lilac for the first time in our 10 years of marriage for her

carelessness. She kept apologizing, so I told her that I wanted to talk to her about a few things.

I let the boys play video games for a while so we could have a proper conversation.

Instead of asking where she was last night, knowing this might give her a hint, I asked her where

her attention was and to whom she was talking on the phone. She looked at me apologetically,

and as she was going to say something, her phone started buzzing. It happened three times,

which made me very annoyed, and she apologized. She told me that she met an old friend the day

before yesterday, and last night they both decided to catch up, so that's the reason behind her being

late. She still didn't tell me that she was not in her clinic or about the alcohol thing.

Agree over this or not, but hiding information does count as minor cheating.

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Students exam, so I was so busy with my schedule that I failed to make an update.

On the same night, seeing her having a conversation with someone at 4am in the morning wasn't unusual,

but the conversation that I overheard made me realize otherwise.

I would like to quote it for you all to read, Na, it wasn't a dream marriage of mine,

he's boring and outdated, and I'm tired of the vanilla sex every time. God, I need spice in my life.

Oh, you want to. Probably the reply to her wanting spice in her marriage.

Was I really an outdated, boring person? Did I really fail as a husband?

I thought she was happy with me. Did the arrival of a new friend change everything?

Who is even the new friend of hers? She always slept in my arms, sometimes bought me flowers

and treated me so well. I can't believe hearing all of that.

I went back to my side of the bed. I heard her footsteps and the door opened.

She came back, got inside the blanket, hugged my back like nothing happened,

and fell into a deep slumber. As for me, my instinct was clearer than water,

and at the back of my head, I knew she was drifting away from me.

Honestly, after that night, I got suspicious of her and started following her.

Everything went downhill, and it was worse than what I expected.

If a person is capable of minor cheating, then eventually they have something big under their

sleeves. I couldn't sleep at all, and my head was pounding pretty badly.

After having breakfast, I told her that I could drop her off at the clinic.

She didn't respond at first, and then she told me that she was going to meet James's teacher

at the parent's meeting. It was amusing. Doesn't she know that the meeting was yesterday,

and I already attended that, but I kept track of the lies she was feeding me?

I didn't say a word and left for work. On my way to the office, I got a call from her clinic.

The receptionist asked me why Lilac hadn't come to the clinic for three to four days.

She was not even responding to the calls and texts properly.

The patients had taken prior appointments, and when the doctor didn't turn up,

they were very frustrated because they had their appointments on the respective days.

One thing was leading me to another, and my doubts were getting clearer day by day.

Instead of being a puppet, I decided to see it through my own eyes.

I immediately completed my work and let my intern do the rest of it.

I left my office and went to her clinic, knowing she wouldn't be there.

I entered the clinic and called her. She didn't pick up my call, but called me back after two

minutes. I told her that I visited her, but she was not there. She couldn't say anything for a

few seconds and then responded hesitantly that she was visiting an old patient who couldn't come

to the office and had to describe the process of RCT. She was lying because when I asked the

receptionist if there was any home visit appointment, she said no.

I went back home and both of my sons were silently studying.

Our nanny takes care of James and Max. She was an old friend of my mother and was the most

trusted person. I cooked dinner for them and finished assembling the paper so I could ask for

a few days of leave and follow my wife. Things went as planned, and I decided to remain silent

until and unless I gathered all the proofs so I could properly defend my doubts.

At the dinner table, I asked James about the meeting, and he asked me a question in return,

asking what meeting I was talking about as we had already attended the parents meeting.

The look on Lylic's face was satisfying. She took a bite and said that she just wanted to talk

to James's teacher about his progress. I put my spoon aside and looked at her.

She asked me what was wrong. I took a sigh and asked if she saw the progress report I sent her

over the phone. She apologized and told me that she had forgotten. I asked her how she could

forget something so important while being on the phone all day. She irritably asked whether I was

trying to say that she does nothing except be on the phone all day. I told her no, and she was

taking it the wrong way. She stood up and was very angry with my statement and shouted at me,

saying that I was being baseless and that it was me who never tried doing anything for the family.

Her statement made me furious, but instead of blabbering everything out, I let her speak.

I asked her what she meant by this, and there she said again that I was a boring person,

and our marriage lost its spark. I laughed and told her thank you for taking the conversation the

other way around to use it as a shield for her thoughts and feelings, and I continued eating my food.

She left. Again, at the same time, she was on call, laughing and talking, but I didn't want to hear

the conversation. I wanted to see it by myself and collect the evidence. I never checked her phone,

and with such behavior, I knew she had a password. I waited till she finally fell asleep and took her

phone. She did have the password. I tried many things, but it didn't open. There was one thing

about her forgetful personality was that she used to write passwords in her notebook. I took out

the notebook, and there it was. The phone finally opened, and my hands were shivering from opening the

text messages, but I had two, and there it was, the truth. I just sat there on the floor with the

phone in my hand, scrolling down and seeing the sexting, nudes, and I love you she was sent to

this guy named Richard. That night I cried. I don't remember the last time I cried like this.

I put my hand on my mouth to suppress my weeping, and I took a deep breath because I had less time

and I needed proof. I immediately took screenshots of their chats and sent them to my phone.

Before putting the phone aside, I had to delete the screenshots from the gallery, and thankfully,

I checked the gallery and there were pictures of them. I sent those pictures to my phone and

cleared up every piece of evidence that could let her know that I checked her phone. In the morning,

I left for work as usual, but in reality, I went to my friend the largest place. We have been

friends since childhood, and he knew everything about my life. I told him everything that happened,

and he couldn't believe it either. He kept saying that if I hadn't shown him the proof,

he would have smacked me for a joke like this. After a while, I headed towards the address

of Richard, which was mentioned in one of the texts, and parked my car behind the tree.

It was not my car, but Elijah's, as Lilick would know in seconds.

After waiting, I saw Richard outside his house with flowers in his hand, and Lilick got out of

her car and hugged him tightly. I immediately took the picture and couldn't look at them for more

than a few seconds. I kept wondering that if she didn't like me, a little bit of honesty

could have been better and would have fixed everything, but neither did she want to lose this

family nor could she stop cheating. As much as I was heartbroken, she destroyed my ego because,

in a world full of cheaters, I was so proud of myself and her for being a stable and loyal couple.

She made a joke out of my calm nature. This went on for three to four days, and I collected

satisfactory evidence because it was my time to pour oil into the burning fire and ruin the

already ruined marriage I already told everything to our nanny, and she offered to let me know when

my wife came back and left the place. Our nanny called me and informed me that she was going to

visit her sick relatives, so she wouldn't be there today, and I gave her the leave. I called

Lilick, told her the same, and asked her to go back home so she could leave as James and Max would

be left alone. She agreed immediately. I was with Elijah, telling him and discussing what we

should do about this matter. I didn't have the courage to tell these things to our parents.

Suddenly I got a call from Lilick, where she was sobbing and saying that Max fell from the

ladder and broke his arms, and she was taking him to the ER. My skin turned cold and anxiety

took hold of me, and I panicked, not knowing what I should do now. I didn't have the proper

state of mind to drive the car, so I asked Elijah instead. When we reached the hospital,

the doctor C told us not to worry as it was just a minor injury and it would heal in a few weeks.

I took a sigh of relief and kissed my son's forehead while Lilick was talking to my mother on the

phone. I was sitting next to James and asked him about the incident and how it happened.

He told me that Max was climbing the ladder, and he shouted and called mom many times,

but she didn't listen as she was on the call, and then Max slipped and fell.

After hearing this, I got so angry. I walked towards her and threw her phone on the floor.

Everyone was looking at us. I screamed and shouted at her for being so irresponsible.

Elijah was trying to calm me down, but I couldn't. Max could have gotten a serious injury.

I said many things, and she was trying to make herself the victim by saying that I was an

absent father. After hearing this, I could get closer to her and whispered in her ear that at

least I was better than her and didn't have CK anyone on her back. She looked frightened,

like a scared cat. After that argument in the hospital, Elijah took our sons to his place,

and I went back home with Lilick. We didn't say a thing on our way back, and as for remorse.

She was just pretending, as I saw her texting him a few times, and that made me even more furious.

What she told me blew my mind. She must have been thinking that I would sympathize with her,

but I don't have any sympathy for cheaters. She told me that she dated Richard back in her high school

year, and that relationship ended a month before our marriage. She never wanted to marry me,

but had no choice. You see, Lilick's dad is also a dentist and had his own clinic which

Lilick was eyeing, but her dad kept a condition that she had to marry someone respectable in order

to inherit that, or else it would go to her brother who was five years younger to her and was also

interested in pursuing dental. Richard was jobless and a rookie at that time, so she broke up with

Richard and decided to marry me. She said she met Richard one month ago in her clinic when he

visited her to get his teeth cleaned for a photo shoot as he works as a model for a fashion

designing company. After meeting him again, things escalated slowly, which ended up in this.

I had tears in my eyes, and she was already crying and asking me for another chance to fix this,

but it was all a play by now. She knew it quite well that Richard wouldn't marry her,

and she couldn't afford to lose a stable family. She also stated that I was not her type of

person in half of the time she felt confined. In response, I asked her whether she was blaming me

for having a different personality, which made her cheat, and not her own actions.

She stood up and started shouting at me for not being understanding, and that's why she preferred

Richard over me. I walked towards her, grabbed her by her hands angrily, and told her to shut up

with the bullshit and manipulation. I told her that cheating was her own choice and that she wanted

to do it, not because of me. I was so angry at her claims, and I did everything I could.

I left the place and asked Elijah to drop James and Max off at their grandparents,

and I will be staying at his place for a while. I have not spoken to him after arriving at his place.

I just don't want to talk to anyone. Maybe unleashing my emotions in front of strangers might

help me calm down. I'm just able to think straight. Update 2. Hey people, I know I took a while to

update. Thank you for checking on me. This is the last satisfactory update. Also, Max is all

healed now, and I was working on my latest project, which basically means satisfying my ego.

So I spent three days at Elijah's place and did my college work.

I refused to talk about any of this with him, and I avoided every conversation related to this.

After a while, I went back home, and much to my surprise, it was decorated with flowers and balloons.

Then Lyla came with flowers and started apologizing and begging me for forgiveness.

She had been texting me and calling me, and I avoided talking to her.

I had no feelings for her except pure hatred, but for my revenge, I agreed to be manipulated by

her one more time. Now her acts of being pretentious all the time were clear to me, and honestly,

she never really took care of the kids, the nanny did. And as a mother, it's a responsibility

and not a favor for your own kid. That's why the kids wanted me or the nanny more than her own mother.

I was busy preparing for Max's birthday and other S.H.T.S. pulled by Lylaq,

like couple therapy and other different things to rebuild this relationship.

She was trying so hard to make it look genuine while meeting Richard on my back once a week.

We decided to invite the close family members for his birthday, which included my parents and

siblings, and the same for her. Before everything happened, birthdays used to be so fo the scene,

but now it feels disgusting to think that she was just pretending the whole time.

After the cake-cutting ceremony was the time to reveal the biggest gift to her father.

I asked James and Max when to the other room and open their presents.

While everyone was chilling out, I called Lylaq and asked her whether she was going to give the

present she prepared to her father. Her father looked happy, as did everybody else, but as for Lylaq,

she already had it. She kept nodding her head and saying no with her signs.

Her eyes were teary as I handed over the gift to her father. He opened it and saw the pictures

and everything. He stood up and shouted at her for meeting that jobless J.R.K. again and for

ruining our marriage. Another gift was for Lylaq, divorced papers, which already came 10 days ago.

Her brother and my family were in complete shock as I told her father everything.

Her father asked her to sign the paper, leave the hospital tomorrow, and find work for

herself somewhere else, as he couldn't let her ruin his name. Lylaq was crying and asking her

father for forgiveness, and her mother was devastated. She ruined this for everyone and a small

sense of remorse would let me stop it, but she continued meeting him afterward.

I allowed her to meet James and Max on weekends and refused to let her take them for a stay

after her irresponsible action. After the divorce, we went on our separate paths and never

indulged in any conversation with her, even after seeing her for quite some time.

James and Max did miss her, but it's better to be raised by a single parent than by an irresponsible

one. As for me, I'm moving on with my life, keeping myself busy with work and children.

But the past will always stick to me like a parasite, but my revenge did satisfy my ego.

Seeing her not getting what she wanted helped me overcome my mental health and I continued with my

life.