The trigger for this painful revelation was an ordinary high-school photo album that Theresa found in her husband\u2019s belongings. Now, the woman wishes she had never even touched this album, but it\u2019s too late and now the desperate wife and mom doesn\u2019t know what to do with the truth that has been opened to her.\n

Theresa penned\u00a0us a\u00a0very emotional letter.\n\n
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Theresa, 37, used to\u00a0be\u00a0a\u00a0happily married woman, who was living her best life with her beloved husband Tim, and her 2\u00a0wonderful kids. The woman penned\u00a0us a\u00a0letter and shared her story which provoked quite a\u00a0stir in\u00a0our editorial. We\u00a0imagined ourselves in\u00a0her shoes for a\u00a0moment and many of\u00a0us confessed that we\u00a0would feel desperate in\u00a0such a\u00a0complicated situation.\n
The woman wanted advice and opinions from our readers who might have faced a\u00a0similar situation in\u00a0their life and were able to\u00a0recover from such a\u00a0painful and devastating experience.\n
Theresa opened her letter, saying, \u201cMy\u00a0husband Tim and\u00a0I have been happily married for 15\u00a0years. I\u00a0met Tim at\u00a0a\u00a0big party that our mutual friend threw on\u00a0the occasion of\u00a0her birthday. We\u00a0fell in\u00a0love with each other instantly, this was a\u00a0truly romantic and unforgettable beginning of\u00a0our long and strong\u00a0relationship.\n
Tim proposed to\u00a0me\u00a0after 5\u00a0months of\u00a0dating and\u00a0I immediately said yes, because\u00a0I was so\u00a0sure that he\u00a0was my\u00a0only one and\u00a0I saw no\u00a0point in\u00a0waiting, I\u00a0wanted a\u00a0family with this man and\u00a0I never regretted my\u00a0decision, up\u00a0until recently.\u201d\n\n
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Theresa thought she knew everything about Tim, but she was mistaken.\n\n
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Theresa shared, \u201cThere were no\u00a0secrets between me\u00a0and Tim from the very start of\u00a0our relationship. Or\u00a0so\u00a0I\u00a0thought. I\u00a0shared every single detail of\u00a0my\u00a0past relationships with my\u00a0husband, and so\u00a0did\u00a0he, and\u00a0I was sure that\u00a0I knew everything about his life. I\u00a0was feeling secure and Tim was never tired of\u00a0paying me\u00a0the sweetest compliments about my\u00a0appearance and personality, and he\u00a0did it\u00a0even after many years of\u00a0our marriage. I\u00a0had no\u00a0reason to\u00a0be\u00a0jealous or\u00a0anxious about anything, I\u00a0was a\u00a0happy wife and a\u00a0happy mother and everything seemed rock-solid, up\u00a0until one day.\u201d\n
The woman wrote, \u201cTim and\u00a0I used to\u00a0sleep in\u00a0the same bed when we\u00a0got married, but when we\u00a0had our first kid, and then the second in\u00a0just a\u00a0year, we\u00a0moved to\u00a0a\u00a0bigger house and started sleeping in\u00a0separate rooms. This only made our family happier, because we\u00a0both had some\u00a0personal space\u00a0and a\u00a0higher quality of\u00a0sleep, so\u00a0yes, we\u00a0both appreciated this detachment to\u00a0some extent.\n
Tim used to\u00a0clean his room on\u00a0his own and\u00a0I never really interfered with the \u2018artistic mess\u2019 that he\u00a0had there. But once, when he\u00a0was away on\u00a0a\u00a0long business trip, I\u00a0decided to\u00a0change the bedding in\u00a0his room. I\u00a0went there and started taking away the sheets when suddenly\u00a0I noticed something resembling a\u00a0book under his mattress. I\u00a0took it\u00a0out and saw that this was a\u00a0photo album and all the photos there were taken while Tim was in\u00a0the university. I\u2019d never seen this album before, so\u00a0I started looking through the photos with a\u00a0genuine spark of\u00a0curiosity.\u201d\n\n
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Theresa made a\u00a0shocking revelation while looking through her husband\u2019s old album.\n\n
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Theresa wrote, \u201cI\u00a0was shocked to\u00a0discover that many photos showed Tim with some beautiful girl, apparently she was his groupmate, but their relationship was far from being just friendly. In\u00a0every photo, Tim was hugging her and kissing her passionately. For\u00a0me, this was a\u00a0distressing discovery, because I\u2019ve never heard of\u00a0Tim having such a\u00a0relationship in\u00a0the past and he\u00a0told me\u00a0that while being in\u00a0the university he\u00a0had zero relationship and dedicated all his time to\u00a0studying for his degree.\n
I\u00a0was just about to\u00a0close this album and move on\u00a0with the thought that my\u00a0husband still had a\u00a0right to\u00a0hide the information about some of\u00a0his past romantic experiences from me\u00a0since this didn\u2019t affect our relationship and marriage. And then\u00a0I saw a\u00a0photo that made me\u00a0freeze in\u00a0shock. This was the photo of\u00a0the same girl from the university, but it\u00a0was taken recently, because there was a\u00a0date on\u00a0it, and the girl was looking a\u00a0decade older, and she was holding a\u00a0child. But the most heart-wrenching revelation was that the kid was a\u00a0copy of\u00a0my\u00a0husband. And the kid did look like our younger son, who also looks like his dad 100%. I\u00a0was speechless.\u201d\n\n
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Theresa contacted the woman from the photo and revealed the devastating truth.\n\n
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Theresa shared, \u201cOn\u00a0the back of\u00a0one photo, I\u00a0saw the names of\u00a0Tim\u2019s groupmates written by\u00a0him, together with their phone numbers. The woman\u2019s name was also there and\u00a0I found her phone number, too.\n
I\u00a0called her and introduced myself, telling her that we\u00a0needed to\u00a0talk. She wasn\u2019t surprised at\u00a0all as\u00a0if\u00a0she had been waiting for my\u00a0call. We\u00a0met in\u00a0a\u00a0small fast-food restaurant near our house and she started bombarding me\u00a0with revelations soon after we\u00a0said hello to\u00a0one another.\n
Turned out, that Tim had been living a\u00a0double life since the first day of\u00a0our relationship. He\u00a0was dating me\u00a0and he\u00a0never gave up\u00a0on\u00a0dating her. Then he\u00a0chose me\u00a0for being his wife because this seemed a\u00a0\u2018more practical decision\u2019 since this woman thought she couldn\u2019t have kids, but\u00a0I was healthy and Tim chose me\u00a0because of\u00a0my\u00a0maternal potential.\n
He\u00a0had been going on\u00a0his business trips, which weren\u2019t business trips at\u00a0all. He\u00a0spent weeks in\u00a0her house, with her, and then returned to\u00a0me\u00a0and imitated a\u00a0happy family life. Then, against all expectations, she got pregnant and this was Tim\u2019s son. And their relationship never faded, but only blossomed during all 15\u00a0years that we\u00a0were married.\u201d\n
Theresa shared, \u201cI\u00a0haven\u2019t spoken to\u00a0my\u00a0husband yet. I\u00a0asked that woman to\u00a0give me\u00a0the possibility to\u00a0speak to\u00a0Tim first and she promised me\u00a0that she would not tell him that\u00a0I know everything. Now I\u2019m sitting in\u00a0the dark, in\u00a0my\u00a0room, and Tim is\u00a0in\u00a0his room, and I\u2019m writing this letter to\u00a0you because\u00a0I don\u2019t know how to\u00a0act further and how to\u00a0live further with this truth. And I\u00a0don\u2019t know how to\u00a0talk to\u00a0Tim about this. What should I\u00a0do?\u201d\n\n
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And here\u2019s a\u00a0woman, whose discovery was even more\u00a0creepy\u00a0and distressing. She found a\u00a0tampon in\u00a0her husband\u2019s car, and this hygienic stuff didn\u2019t belong to\u00a0her. The woman thought her husband was cheating and decided to\u00a0conduct her investigation. Now she regrets her curiosity because the truth turned out even more disgusting than infidelity and the woman can\u2019t come to\u00a0terms with it\u00a0now.\n
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