Ex-Spouses Are Revealing The Exact Moment They Realized Their Marriage Was Beyond Saving

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“It was 2018, and we had been married for two years. She was a great singer and wanted to work with a cover band that she had auditioned for, and I, being supportive, pushed her to pursue the goal. She got the gig as the lead singer for a band that traveled around the country, mainly on weekends, performing a setlist of cover songs. She’d be away almost weekly, but I wanted to support her ambitions, so I was fully on board. At first, I would drop her off at a studio the band used or at the airport on Fridays, depending on where the gigs were, and she would typically return on Sundays. Very quickly, the weekends started extending into Thursdays, and sometimes Wednesdays, for the drop-off and then Mondays and Tuesdays for the pickup. Something began to feel off. The weekend gigs weren’t changing, so why was she asking to be dropped off days earlier?”

“She’d claim they were rehearsing, and it was easier to stay closer to the venues because it was about a two-hour drive. I don’t believe in snooping through a partner’s phone. I’ve always felt that if you need to do that, then you shouldn’t be involved with that person, but something was off, and I could feel it like an itch that could not be satisfied. Eventually, the night came when her phone became like the ‘Telltale Heart.’ I was in bed, and I swore I could hear it vibrating. I couldn’t take it anymore; I quietly took it and went to the living room. I opened the phone and saw a very strange wallpaper photo. It looked like two people kissing, but I wasn’t sure. I opened the photo library and found the picture. She, not being tech savvy, did not realize that you could revert a photo to its original format, so I hit edit, revert, and there it was. The picture was zoomed in and cropped. It was her and the band leader kissing. I was devastated. I could feel my heartbeat in my stomach. I started to breathe like I had just sprinted 100 yards. 

I was sitting on the couch in our living room, and all the pictures of us around me instantly made me feel like I was sitting in a funeral parlor. I paced around a bit and tried to figure out what to do. This had been going on for two months at this point. I went to the bedroom, opened the original photo, placed the phone down, and turned the lights on. She slowly woke up, and the first thing she went for was her phone. She saw the photo and had nothing to say. We tried to work on things for about a year, but the damage had already been done. I knew deep down when I opened that photo that things would never be the same and would essentially be the downfall of our marriage and relationship. Cheating is extremely difficult to recover from.”

—Anonymous