Rewind to 2014, my ex wife had started texting penpals and left our marriage. At the time I thought I was stuck and had to keep it together for the kids and did so another 4 years until I couldn't take it any more.
She had grown distant from me after I put some boundaries up with her about the in home daycare she had. There was an expectation on her behalf that I come home from work and help her with her daycare. I was exhausted from my job being stressful and home was never a refuge. So once I put some distance between us to get some rest, she decided to meet penpals online, which in hindsight were just sexting partners.
I came home on Valentine's Day 2014 and had hoped to take her out to dinner. Earlier that day, she told me one of her pen pals in Arizona's wife went psycho on her and she had to create a new email address. Then we were getting ready to go out to dinner and my daughter came into our bedroom and said there were pictures of my wife at the time, on her social media in lingerie. After that, my wife was super pissed and was a bitch to me the whole evening. I know she had gotten busted for sexting a married man and possibly got hacked or had a bad setting in her phone. We went to one restaurant and there was a long wait and I couldn't stand being with her. I had us leave and went to another restaurant without a wait just to get dinner over with. Then we went home and I poured a stiff drink, and went the opposite part of the house from her. I slept that night and many others going forward in my recliner.
A couple of weeks later, I took her out to dinner and told her I knew she was cheating. She denied it, even after I recounted the facts to her. I also said she never sent me the pictures, so I knew they weren't for me. It would take me another 4 years for me to realize what a pathological liar I was dealing with and how she had no conscience. Pretty soon after that, she would find a more permanent long distance affair partner and I would be in hell for a while longer.
