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'My husband is cheating on me with my best friend - I'm pregnant with his child'

03 June 2024 , 08:58
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She has been urged to speak to a lawyer (Stock) (Image: Getty Images)
She has been urged to speak to a lawyer (Stock) (Image: Getty Images)

A woman has been left heartbroken after discovering her husband is cheating on her with her best friend. The woman, who is six months pregnant, has been struggling with her mental health after learning her dad has stage-three colon cancer.

Throughout his battle, she says her husband has been her "rock" helping her through each day at a time. But her support system came crashing down after discovering her husband has been living a secret double life behind her back.

She said on Reddit: "My husband and I have been dating since I was 19 and he was 22. We’ve been married for six years now. We have two kids and I’m six months pregnant with our third." One day, she saw a message from her best friend on his phone when she was cancelling an alarm for the morning.

She said: "My best friend and I have been friends since diapers. Her family is like my family and vice versa. My mum and her mum grew up together. We’ve always been solid and right after my dad's appointment when we found out he had so little time left I drove straight to her house and she held me while I cried for hours.

"If there are soulmates in friend form, she was mine. 'Thick as thieves' is what my mum used to say. This morning as I was up with my three-year-old (he’s sick) my husband's work alarm was going off. He has a few he sets so I turned that one off and gently woke him up, he said he was up late working so he took the morning off. I rolled over and went back to sleep.

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  • "As I went to turn off the remained of his alarms I saw a text from my friend on his Lock Screen that said, 'I’m assuming since there hasn’t been an angry pregnant lady on my doorstep you haven’t told her about us yet?' Time froze at that moment. I took his phone and walked away and just read their conversations.

    "Four months this man has been sleeping with my best friend. Four months these people have been lying to my face." Knowing she needs to do something, the woman has been trying to pluck up the courage to confront her husband about the situation.

    She said: "I know so many people get a moment of clarity in situations like this but I have none. Aside from being sad about my dad, I haven’t changed. I’m still a loving wife and mother. I still doted on him and my children. I talk to him about how he is doing and how was his day every freaking day. I haven’t allowed the ground to swallow me whole.

    "I know what I have to do now, but I just don’t want to. I’m about to lose my family and my support system in one blow. I’ll confront him tomorrow. Today? Today I just need these last 24 hours of peace. As for her? I won’t give her the satisfaction of a response. I don’t care why she did it. She did it and it’s done. I was always the friend who cleaned up her messes. After today I will cut her out of my life like she never mattered at all.

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    "This has to be the hardest storm I’ll ever weather, but damn it, I know I’ll sail through it. If not for me, for my children." Trying to offer words of support, one user said: "I hope you have a separate bank account with your own emergency funds stashed. If not, please use the time now to create one and put some funds there that he doesn’t have access to. This goes for credit cards too if yours are only connected to joint accounts."

    Another user added: "Go see a lawyer. Now. Don't confront, act as 'normal' as you can, and for the love of God, go see a lawyer first, before you make any moves. This loving, kind husband, will turn nasty the second you confront him, knowing he has a backup to run to when things get tough. Lawyer. Now."

    A third user said: "Get a copy of everything, lawyer, scorched earth, talk to the lawyer before confronting him, for that text, she seems to be pushing for him to leave you, burn her on your circle too."

    Paige Freshwater

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