Want to know if I am over reacting.
My husband told me a week ago that he has been cheating on me since the start of the year and is in love with someone else. I was very distraught. Wasn’t eating for days. Not proud of it but was self harming, which he was aware of because he caught me doing it.
Then he ended up showing me a video and he had recorded my reaction and called it a cheating prank! Turns out the messages he showed me he sent her were to another discord account he created. He was going to post it to youtube to try to get views but I threatened to sue him (fortunately he believed it) so he didn’t.
I want to leave him because he knew how much it hurt me, I even missed work for a few days and he knew I was self harming. He comes across as a sadistic person and even now he says I’m making a big deal and have no sense of humor.
Would you guys do the same in my shoes or should I try to move past this?
Here are what netizens think:
- Pranks don’t last days and cause this much pain. That’s horrible that he would watch you agonize for days for “views”.
- I would leave him. Don’t let him tell you that you are overreacting. He caused you great harm and was laughing about it, that’s really abusive in my opinion. He was aware that you did not eat and that you hurt yourself and he didn’t even then tell you it was a prank. He sounds batshit crazy and I wouldn’t be surprised if he actually also did cheat.
- Christ, well this ‘prank’ went wrong. He let it go on way too long and is horrible. I don’t blame you leave the manchild
- You aren’t overreacting. You are valid in your emotions. If this crossed a line for you, and you want to explore leaving as an option then go ahead. It sounds like he didn’t take your emotions into consideration at all, and the worst part is that he let it fester. Something definitely needs to be done even if you don’t leave. But you are not overreacting!