He Had Been Cheating On Me For Months With an 18 Year Old!

My confession comes from a situation that nearly broke me. Knew something was fishy about my partner but we had a child together and he was good at manipulating me. One morning I woke up and something just clicked in my brain so I grabbed his phone from where he hid it under the bed and went through it. Found out he had been cheating on me for months with an 18 year old, using my money as I had to go back full time so we could afford to live, to buy her things and go visit her under the guise of pretending he had bad mental health issues and needed to visit his mum. I phoned her and remember having to get my son as he woke up and having him in one hip and her on the phone when he came downstairs. He was so angry to be caught out. He said he was sorry and that it didn’t mean anything.... I had to take time off work as I was heart broken and embarrassed as I feel for it. Many more lies came out. I went through his things as I knew there was more, found a weird invoice, phoned the number on it pretending it was an enquiry about the order and it was the girls mum saying that her daughters fiancé made the order. I then told her the whole story. She was fuming for me and her daughter. I know it was probably wrong of me but I just had a need to know everything. The daughter dumped him after her mother had talked to her. I found out he’d said he was a single dad and had done video calls using our son as a lure. 5 years later and I look back and see how strong I was when my whole life felt like a lie. From those lies though I also got the best person in my life. My son. I still see his dad and talk to him as we share a child but I take everything he says with a pinch of salt. What happened changed me but not him. He didn’t learn the error of lying and that it can break a person. Someone you pretend to love. I still at times struggle with low self esteem and don’t trust in people like I used to but have come so far.

Submitted by Annonymous