Divorced Dad gets even with ex-wife by cutting off internet and phone access 6 months after separation: 'She’ll need a new number!'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Oct 23, 2025 4:00 PM EDT

No one wants to get on this divorced dude's bad side.

After feeling like his separation was mostly amicable because he caved and decided to pay for pretty much everything, this author had had enough of his ex-wife when he learned that she was still heavily reliant on his accounts. 

Now, it should be noted that the author was generous enough to politely ask his ex-wife if she would remove herself from any such accounts, and she said she would. But that was six months ago. Now, he found out that she had added her phone number to his Spectrum account, and he was now paying for both her internet and phone access.

That was the last straw. At a certain point, one has to put a stop to being cordial when one is being actively manipulated time and time again. Clearly, this man's ex-wife interpreted the terms of their separation as validation for continuing to have him pay for everything under the sun. Well, that window has come to a close!  

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  • We all know that there are two sides to every story, and yes, when you're separating from someone, it can take time to make sure all the logistics have been properly dealt with. Still, the fact that this woman waited a full six months to start paying for some of her own monthly expenses makes it hard to sympathize with her. This is especially true after her ex-husband had confronted her about it politely. Sure, he was willing to provide the majority of the finances for their children, but her phone bill? Come on, girl! You wanted this divorce, remember? 

  • "Ex needs a new phone number. Womp womp"

    Divorced dad here. We've got two very good kids. We've mostly been amicable but mostly because I've paid for everything.
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  • Part of the reason for the separation was her not working enough while complaining constantly about our situation. I
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  • went from as a main source of income to becoming an independent plumber. All so we could stay in this expensive city. Los Angeles. 2 years ago we finally separated. I moved out.
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  • Stopped paying her rent. Told her I'm going to separate the phones soon. 6 months later she still hadn't found a new carrier. So I canceled her number. That time I was nice enough to 3 way call her
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  • so she could port her number to a new carrier. What I had forgotten was that I was still paying the home internet.
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  • Spectrum. Which is who I use for my new place too. A year ago | realized and told she needs a new internet provider, that I'm going to cut it off soon. More gaslighting. I put it off. Yesterday
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  • I get an email thanking me for my payment. Twice. I'm so broke right now that I was highly motivated. When I picked up the kids later that day I also grabbed the router. Today I took it into the store to cancel only to find out
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  • she put her phone number on my spectrum account!! They gladly helped me terminate that mobile service. Telling me she'll need a new number! Hahaha and they canceled the internet. Saving me
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  • $100 a month and the satisfaction of knowing my ex is having to get a new number because she was too shady and lazy to do the right thing.
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  • Throughout our relationship she took advantage of me being nice and considerate or too lazy to be vindictive. Not today. Thanks for reading my mush.
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  • Odd-Outcome450 . You need to be better about checking your accounts and reading your statements. But good job finally
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  • jeffro1477. Lock your credit so she can't take out new accounts with your info too.
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  • HIITman2020. Look into any and all places where her name might be listed as a beneficiary. Good forbid should something happen to you she would be entitled to money or property instead of your children.
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  • IDrinkMyBreakfast ⚫ Now lock down your credit at the big 3, then create an account at ChexSystems and freeze that shit too.
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  • I learned the hard way that even though your credit can be frozen, a person can still open a bank account using your information. Creating an account at ChexSystems. will lock that portion too
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  • Nice_Bluebird7626. Oh epic. Man how crazy she was like "oh you're not paying my phone anymore... bet" and you basically said "ha... no... really. I'm not paying you're phone anymore" thanks for the giggles I'm sharing with my husband
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  • Active_Air_2311. I have a somewhat similar story for me. Post divorce, I took a day off work and systematically went to every utility and took his name off
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  • all the accounts. I went to the car insurance, and I didn't cancel his insurance (cuz I was trying to be nice),
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  • I just moved mine and our children's cars to a new policy. The last thing was calling the phone. I explained the situation, and we did a 3 way call. He
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  • answered and lit into me hard. Calling me all sorts of names, I was trying to get his attention to tell him that someone else was on the line. The phone lady finally
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  • spoke up, and he got nice real quick! Classic ex- husband move, very quick to be an ass to me and be nice in public.
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  • After that, I was STILL nice to him and kept his unpaid cell phone on my plan so he could keep his number. He was a mechanic, and the only way his clients
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  • contacted him was his phone. I didn't want him to lose years of business, and I was hoping that would help with child support. It didn't. But oh well, I look back on it now like karma. I was the bigger person.
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  • Then, a few months later, he called me accusing me of changing his log ins and passwords and pins to his phone account because his own and addled brain had locked himself out.
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