'Bob's wife did a real number on him': Married man discovers his wife has been seeing her high school ex, he hires a PI and tips off ex's new wife

Author image for Ben Weiss
Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Nov 19, 2024 8:00 AM EST

This dude really decided to make an action thriller out of his life. Not only did he lean into the jealous husband trope, but he even went so far as to hire a private investigator to spy on his wife after he began to suspect that she had been seeing her high school ex-boyfriend on the side. 

These suspicions began when his kids had revealed that their mother had frequently dropped the kids off at her parents for a few hours at a time on days when she wasn't working. Now, for the sake of transparency, we do not support going into your partner's emails, printing them out, and setting out to sabotage all parties involved in infidelity. Although this Redditor has convinced himself that his behavior has only affected the life of the home-wrecker in this story, he has no idea that his kids probably witnessed and internalized some of the tension between their parents.

Keep scrolling below for the full saga. For more, check out this post about two bickering twin sisters,

Advertisement
  • 01
    "I printed out these email exchanges and stashed them." ory Bookmarks Search mail +Compose ☐ ☐ C:
    via Stephen Phillips - Hostreviews.co.uk
  • 02
    Cheat on your wife with mine? I will burn your life to the ground.
    via Broad_Adz
  • 03
    Way back in the early 2000's, I began to suspect that my wife was up to something. Our two kids were about 4 and 6, still young, but not so young they couldn't tell you something about what had happened in their day.
    via Broad_Adz
  • 04
    They started talking a lot about staying with my wife's parents during the day which wasn't really that strange in and of itself, but since they lived about 90
    via Broad_Adz
  • 05
    minutes away, doing so two or three times a week seemed a bit much (that was basically every day she wasn't working at her part time job).
    via Broad_Adz
  • 06
    When I asked her about it, she denied it, but was never a good liar. So, I started tracking the mileage on her car and sure enough, she was driving an extra 400 or so miles per week. I knew some sh was going on.
    via Broad_Adz
  • 07
    Then one day I sat down at the computer and she had left a sticky note with her AOL password written on it next to the keyboard. I could not resist and logged in to read her emails and saw a few email exchanges between her and her college BFF
    via Broad_Adz
  • 08
    where they discussed how my wife was regularly one of her ex bf's from high school. No mention of details about him other than my wife also talking
    via Broad_Adz
  • 09
    sh about his wife making fun of how she'd gotten fat after having kids. Anyway, I printed out these email exchanges and stashed them.
    via Broad_Adz
  • 10
    I still needed to know the details, so I called a friend who was a cop and he suggested I call a guy he knew that had left the force to become a Pl. "Ron" was great, I
    via Broad_Adz
  • 11
    paid his retainer and gave him the emails and what little I knew about my wife's activities and he figured out exactly what she was doing. His report detailed with photos and times/dates/locations
    via Broad_Adz
  • 12
    all about how she would take the kids to her parent's, then go meet this guy for lunch, then they'd go to a dumpy motel for a few hours, after which she'd pick up the kids and return home.
    via Broad_Adz
  • 13
    At this point, I hired a divorce lawyer. My parents cheated on each other and the fallout absolutely mine and my siblings' childhood. It was something that was totally unacceptable.
    via Broad_Adz
  • 14
    I also asked Ron to find out what he could about this guy. Ron absolutely came through. I learned his name ("Bob"), that he was married and had 3 kids. I also found out that he worked as a VP of sales for his father in law's business. Hmmmm.
    via Broad_Adz
  • 15
    At this point, I had my lawyer draw up the divorce papers. I also asked Ron for a couple more copies of his report and I one more thing I wanted him to do for me.
    via Broad_Adz
  • 16
    On the same day I had my wife served with the divorce papers at her work, I had Ron meet with this guy's wife and show her everything he'd found out. She
    via Broad_Adz
  • 17
    seemed nice and I figured that she deserved to know what her dear hubby was up to. What she did with that information was up to her.
    via Broad_Adz
  • 18
    While the information about my wife's infidelity didn't really matter in my divorce proceedings, Bob's wife did a real number on him. According to the publicly available court documents from the divorce and
    via Broad_Adz
  • 19
    other related proceedings, she cleaned out their joint account, took the kids and left. As soon as her dad found out what he'd done, Bob was fired and since her parents actually owned the house where Bob and his wife
    via Broad_Adz
  • 20
    lived, he also got evicted. Their divorce was ugly. Lots of fighting in (and evidently out of) court. I guess Bob went to the house and started arguing with his wife and it escalated to the point the her brother stepped in and Bob got
    via Broad_Adz
  • 21
    his nose broken. There were restraining orders, a few more incidents with police reports, criminal charges, jail time and so on.
    via Broad_Adz
  • 22
    I can't find Bob on the internet anywhere these days. Last I heard, he'd left the state and His ex wife did ok, she went to work at her dad's company and took over after he retired.
    via Broad_Adz
  • 23
    As for me, my ex and I got along well enough, I didn't engage with her on anything that wasn't related to the kids and now that they're both adults, I don't talk to her at all anymore. I don't hate
    via Broad_Adz
  • 24
    her or anything, but I only care in the context that she is my kids' mom and is important to them, nothing beyond that.
    via Broad_Adz
  • 25
    . Apprehensives... 19h ago. Had to pause for a moment at the mention of AOL...that takes me back...
    via Broad_Adz
  • 26
    PrimarySelecti... 19h ago • Sorry for all this happening to you. On the other hand Well Played! You checked off all the boxes and got it done... -
    via Broad_Adz
  • 27
    • Ok-Cry-1387 19h ago • That's some serious maturity you had there without breaking down. Your ability to keep your sanity would be one of the most crucial things your kids will and should learn imo.
    via Broad_Adz

Want More? Follow Us and Add Us as a Preferred Source on Google.

Tags

pro revenge marriage revenge revenge-stories cheating exes divorce reddit thread Reddit married
Scroll Down For The Next Article