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“I was divorced. He told me he was, too, when he asked me out. He didn’t tell me he was only separated until after I’d fallen hard for him, but he assured me the divorce was ‘close to final.’ I should have ended things then, but I looked up the court case and saw it lined up with what he said, so I decided to stick it out. Then he told me we had to date secretly because ‘the judge was conservative’ and it would look bad for his custody case if he were dating, even though they’d been separated for quite a while. But he assured me that if I did everything right, it would be over quickly and we could be together. I spent way too much time waiting for him to be available and sneaking around. To make things worse, his not-quite-ex had weaponized the child, who would come to his house and constantly look for evidence of our relationship. He ended it after getting five months and several thousand dollars out of me.”
“Neither one of us could quite let the other go, so things were off and on for another five months. I finally pushed him out of my life when he started telling me I was never allowed to talk about him to anyone else. His divorce case didn’t resolve until five years later, when his child was 18 and custody was no longer an issue.
I should’ve never gotten involved. My only excuse is that I was still in pain after my divorce and was excited someone was interested in me after spending the last few years of my marriage being ignored. I will always live with the guilt that I was with a married man and the knowledge that I was foolish enough to put up with being treated that way.”
—Anonymous
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