I Found A Burner Phone In My Wife’s Jeans Just Two Months After Our Wedding. It Revealed A “5-year Plan” To Leave Me For My Half-brother. How Do I Survive This Betrayal?

Update: One Week Later

Okay, so it’s been close to a week since I sent that message and Tina left the house. Things have become relatively quieter now, in the sense that nobody is constantly messaging me and reminding me that this is all my fault. This is mostly because I have blocked everyone. I really don’t need that sort of negativity in my life anymore.

The only person who can still contact me is Carla since I unblocked her because the divorce proceedings are about to begin. However, she is using that window to try and talk to me and explain that she wasn’t thinking straight and that she is apologetic for cheating on me. I don’t know what she hopes to accomplish with this, but it’s not really working.

I don’t feel bad for her. I don’t even feel bad about what is happening. I think it’s great that she cheated because it saved me from wasting my time with her. I can’t imagine being married to her for a year or more and then finding out she had been cheating on me all along—or worse, letting her plan succeed and then being together for 5 years before finding out about the affair.

I’m trying to put a positive spin on this and come to terms with the fact that she was never the right one for me. Someone who can agree to marry me and then go make out with my half-brother can never be my soulmate. I was wrong about her, and I’m glad I was.

I’m still living in the hotel, and nobody has been able to find me yet, which I’m really thankful for because I don’t know what I would do if they were able to track me down. I know it’s only a matter of time before they do find out since there aren’t many hotels in this area, and they know that I’m not in any of the places in the city. I’ve been working from here, and it’s been lonely and strange, but there’s not much I can do about it.

The only thing I hope works out for me is the divorce. She has already been served, but she hasn’t responded to it yet. I guess she’s probably just holding out hope that I might change my mind because of her consistent begging. It’s optimistic of her, but it’s not going to happen.

Update: The Hotel Confrontation

Hey guys, so 3 days since the last update, and sure enough, my dad and Jerry were able to trace me. They went through every hotel in the city and realized that I wasn’t in any of them. So they started looking for me outside of town and found my car in the parking lot of this hotel.

I had already informed the front desk staff that if somebody came looking for me, they were not supposed to tell them I was here. When my dad and Jerry confronted them about it, they said that nobody by my name was here in the hotel. But my dad and Jerry had already seen my car in the parking lot, so they knew the staff were lying and started throwing a tantrum in the lobby.

They began screaming and hurling cuss words at the receptionists, which forced them to call me down to deal with the situation. Once I came down, security escorted both of them outside, and I went out to talk to them. I had no idea what they even wanted to discuss with me because the damage was already done and Tina knew the truth.

My dad and Jerry told me that they had come up with a solution and a way for me to make up for what I had done. They said I was going to be called to testify against Tina in court, and all I had to do was say a few things to make Tina look like an unstable wife and mother, which is why Jerry cheated on her. That way, Jerry would get full custody.

They said things were not looking good for him because, along with the cheating, Tina also had a lot of other complaints against him that made him look like a bad father. He was mostly not at home, and now Tina knew he was out with Carla. There were also other issues, like he claimed he loved his son but never did anything for him. All the baby duties like changing diapers and feeding him fell to Tina. No matter how much she requested him, he would always claim to be too tired. Not only that, but he also wouldn’t do any of the chores around the house. Tina had been fine doing it all herself before the baby, but she couldn’t do it anymore and wanted to get out of the marriage.

Honestly, I don’t understand why they thought telling me this would work. It just convinced me that I did the right thing and that Tina was better off without him. Besides, it was entitled of them to expect any help from me after screwing me over, especially with something like this. They wanted me to lie about Tina so they would get full custody. I mean, it was ridiculous to even expect that I would agree to it.

I told them I didn’t want to do it and that they meant nothing to me, so I didn’t have to make up for anything. Then I walked away without even bothering to wait for a response because I knew they couldn’t change my mind. I also instructed Ed the security person to have them thrown out because I didn’t want them anywhere near here and mentioned how dangerous they were. So that was enough; they got kicked off the hotel property.

But I still had to apologize for their behavior. The only reason they didn’t get the cops called on them was that they didn’t want any bad press associated with them. Otherwise, they definitely would have called the police and had my dad and Jerry arrested.

Update: Two Days Later

So it’s been two days since Dad and Jerry showed up at my hotel. I haven’t heard back from them since, but Carla has been texting me a lot more now. We have set the date for the first meeting with a court-appointed mediator, which is coming up in a week.

She isn’t even contesting the divorce, so I don’t know why she keeps texting me. I haven’t even opened her chat because I don’t have the bandwidth to deal with all this drama anymore. I know it’ll just be the same old “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have done this to you.” If you ask me, it’s all BS because if she really was sorry, she would have tried to make more of an effort to contact me.

She would have called me at the very least, knowing that I’m not much of a texting person. Or better yet, she might not have cheated at all if she knew I didn’t deserve this. Up until a few days ago, she was limiting herself to two texts per day, but now she’s texting me almost every hour. I just haven’t found the energy or mental strength to open the chat and see what she has to say, but I think I’ll do it soon because it might be something important.

Update: Carla’s Revelation

All right, so this update is coming just 2 hours after the last one. I know it’s pretty soon, but I checked the messages that Carla had been sending to me and found out that she had apparently ended things with Jerry. They had a recent discussion, and she discovered that for him, things had been purely physical.

All the promises he had made to her were merely things he said for the sake of it. She’s obviously very disappointed because, unlike him, she was serious about their relationship and had actually started falling for him. Carla told me that she was very sorry for everything she had put me through. To make up for it, she was not going to contest the divorce or seek any settlement or alimony. She knew she didn’t deserve it.

So that’s one problem solved at least. I won’t have to go through a long, drawn-out process and fight for myself. I didn’t reply to her message because I didn’t know what to say. It’s sad, but she kind of had it coming. What was she even thinking getting involved with a married man with a child, especially when she was getting married herself?

It was quite foolish of her, but it all worked out well for me, so I don’t have any complaints. I’m honestly glad I checked those messages because it means I’ll have to work a lot harder on the divorce than I initially thought. I forwarded all those texts to my lawyer and saved them as screenshots in case I need them later.

Update: Months Later

Hey, so it’s been a couple of months since I posted here, but I’ve been really busy. The divorce and everything took a lot less time once the waiting period was over. In our state, we only have to wait 90 days, so once it was over, it was a relatively straightforward process.

Carla only got to keep the things she had bought for herself. I got everything else, including the house, so I moved back in. She got her car, and since we hadn’t been married for a long time, our finances were separate anyway, so there was nothing to sort out in that regard.

Jerry and Tina are in the middle of their divorce, and the custody situation is getting pretty nasty from what I’ve heard. It’s sad for my nephew, but Tina has told me that I’m allowed to see him. That’s a huge victory for me because I really like the little kid and hope to have one of my own someday. Definitely will, but probably not with Carla.

Anyway, I’m trying to get my life back on track, and so far it’s going well. I just hope it continues to go well afterward as well.