Eight years ago, this 35-year-old woman married her 39-year-old husband, and they have been together for a decade in total.
A year ago, they began trying to find a babysitter to help them with their two sons since they both have full-time jobs.
A neighbor of theirs mentioned their daughter Maggie was potentially up for the position, so Maggie came by to meet them.
Maggie not only seemed accountable, but she was available to flex around their schedules, so they hired her.
“I never once was insecure about Maggie’s looks or worried about my husband being attracted to her,” she explained.
“Maggie did a great job taking care of our sons. We were both happy with her. Around last July, I started to get suspicious because of how my husband and Maggie would talk with each other. I came home one day to find my husband making Maggie laugh uncontrollably.”
“I tried to forget about it because I felt like I was becoming jealous of this younger woman. It stayed in the back of my head after that. The second sign was when I was changing the sheets in our guest bedroom; I found strands of blonde hair.”
She’s a brunette, and not a single member of their family is blonde. The people who slept in that bed last are her in-laws, who aren’t blonde.
Maggie is literally the only person who comes into her home who does have blonde hair, but she figured perhaps Maggie took a nap, so that explained the hair.
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However, when they got closer to Maggie’s birthday, her husband brought up buying Maggie a brand-new car, which she was shocked by.
Maggie already has a car, and they’re not so rich that they can go around buying cars as presents.
Her husband argued that Maggie’s car was on the older side, and he felt it would be safer for Maggie to drive their kids around in a newer car.
She said no way, and that was it. But it really was a red flag to her that her husband was pushing for such a pricey gift for their babysitter.
She didn’t believe it was just her jealousy talking anymore. And when Maggie started coming to their house dressed in heels and skirts, she knew in her gut something was wrong.
“She went from sweatpants and not wearing makeup to now having makeup on and her hair done,” she said.
“Then I notice her toes are painted black. My husband has a thing for feet. I’ve known this for our entire relationship. His favorite color on my toes is black.”
“Now I have this 19-year-old coming to work in high heels with her toes done in my husband’s favorite color.”
She was completely convinced Maggie and her husband were up to no good, so she went looking through her husband’s phone for more clues.
Maggie was supposed to be on a group message with her and her husband to communicate about the boys, but she found deleted texts Maggie and her husband sent to one another privately.
After looking into it, she figured out how to recover those messages from her husband’s phone, and what she found confirmed her suspicions.
“What I uncovered was probably all of the evidence I needed,” she added. “It’s him basically telling Maggie about how our marriage is basically over.”
“They talk about spending the rest of their lives together. How she can move in as soon as I move out. She makes a statement, “Your sons won’t even miss her when they have me as their mom.” That one really hurt me because [of] the audacity of this woman to talk about my sons like that.”
“Also, I found Snapchat on my husband’s phone, which he’s never had before this. I have a copy of the conversations on my phone. I also have them on video kissing in our backyard.”
Clearly, Maggie and her husband forgot about the security camera right there in the yard that caught that moment between them. She’s curious if she should consult a divorce attorney before tipping her hand to her husband.
She would like to say something to her husband, as she wants him to tell her why he tossed out their marriage for a teen girl dying to play housewife.
She’s done a great job of making her husband believe that everything is fine, so her husband thinks he’s sneaking around successfully. She’s so humiliated she can’t bring herself to discuss the affair with her family or her friends,
She cannot understand why her husband destroyed the life that they built together for a 19-year-old girl. She knows she has to file for divorce, as she doesn’t picture herself being in love with her husband ever again.
What advice do you have for her?
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