God I’m still shaking. I didn’t mean to do it. Things weren’t supposed to go this way.
It was a total accident. I’m not sure what to do right now. Please Reddit hive mind tell me what to do.
Let me explain the situation…. One Sunday night in March of 2023, I found out my wife had been cheating on me for years. I (37m) had just bought my wife Stacy (34f) a new iPad for her birthday.
She was very happy with the gift and I was helping her get it set up and synced to her apple account. She went to take a shower and left the iPad open. I heard a bunch of notifications so I checked and saw that all her messages were backed up to the iPad.
Seconds later she received a new message from someone named “Gracie”. I knew of Gracie as she was my wife’s gym friend. For context, in 2021 when covid restrictions lightened up my wife and I joined the gym.
We would go in the morning but then I eventually had to stop due to work. She continued to go and currently goes 3-4 times a week consistently. Eventually she mentioned that she made a friend named Gracie.
She normally has trouble connecting with other women so I was happy she made a new friend. I never met her, but she goes to the gym with her all the time. They have even taken occasional “girls trips”.
Over the years, my wife’s figure has improved greatly. Her butt is bigger and more firm. Her waistline is more slim.
She even has a 6 pack now. I’m very average looking in comparison. I’m not fit but not overweight.
I’m 5’8. Slightly balding but I thought I looked ok. The text from Gracie read “I pulled a muscle last time.
Tomorrow it’s your turn to get on top ;)”. I was stunned. My gut reaction was that they were having sex but my wife is absolutely straight.
I wasn’t sure what to think but before I can screen shot the text my wife started coming out of the shower. I quickly turned off the iPad and went to bed. I couldn’t sleep at all that night.
I was hoping
I misunderstood the text. Maybe they were stretching? Maybe it was during their yoga class?
I was praying it wasn’t what I was thinking. Our relationship hasn’t been perfect but I thought it was good. We’re both firm on being child free.
We have semi regular sex (about twice a week on weekends unless we’re tired). We don’t argue over anything. We’ve been married for 5 years, together for 10.
I cook and clean for us since she works long hours as a night shift nurse (3pm – 3am). I work morning shift as an engineer (5am – 2pm) so we don’t see each other much except for weekends when we’re both off. I decided that night that I wanted to see for myself what was up.
I got up at 4am like normal and got ready for work. I then left in my car and parked down the street from our home. I called off to do this.
She normally went to the gym around 8 am every Monday – Thursday. Like clock work, she left around 750 am. I followed behind her from a distance.
She drove about 15 minutes away to some random neighborhood and pulled into the driveway of a house I didn’t recognize. There was a lime green 67 mustang parked in front of the garage. I saw her get out and walk up to the door.
What I saw after really stayed in my mind. A man opened the door. He was about 6 foot 2, totally jacked and had a thick beard.
He looked like he was a lumber jack or something. She hugged him and went inside. I felt like throwing up.
I was trying to rationalize what I just saw. Hugging him doesn’t necessarily mean she’s sleeping with him but it doesn’t look good either. I stayed in my car and waited for her to come out.
She didn’t leave the house until around 12 pm. Her hair was a mess. Her clothes were wrinkled like they were taken off and thrown around.
Her face was flush like she just had a long work out. They hugged again and she drove off home. I noted the address down and stated there for a bit.
I stayed in my car and drove around for a few hours until it was time to go home. We normally see each other for a brief 20 minutes each afternoon before she goes to work. She acted normal the whole time.
I asked about her gym work out and she said the typical stuff about how yoga and zumba classes were brutal. I was heartbroken but wanted to be absolutely sure. I followed her again every day that week and she did everything the exact same.
She went to this house every morning, the dude would answer and hug her, then she’d spend a few hours each day with him and leave roughly the same time. That was enough evidence for me so I decided to leave her. I contacted a divorce lawyer and explained the situation.
He told me that because I make more money than her and that I have no actual proof of infidelity, at best the process will end with her taking half of all my assets. I was pissed so I came up with a plan: transfer all my assets to my brother, sabotage her birth control, catch her in the act (and take recordings) and then kick her ass out. I spent the next year slowly transferring all my assets to my brother.
My name was on the deed to the house so I transferred it him. I emptied my personal bank account and wired it to him. I own both cars so now they were his.
After her last period a few weeks ago, I swapped her birth control pills with similar looking pills. I also haven’t had sex with her since then as well. That all lead to tonight.
The last part of my plan was to catch her in the act. I couldn’t access her phone or iPad since they were password protected. So I bought 3 small cameras off Amazon and planned on installing them on the outside of the windows of that dudes house.
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