Episode 3: Reddit's Most Brutal Cheating Spouse Revenge
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Me and my ex had a tradition that lasted almost our entire relationship. Every year we'd go to the same resort in Cancun, Mexico with a big group of friends. It started off as a spontaneous trip when we were younger and somehow it just became a yearly event for us. By the time this story happened, we had gone, I think, seven years in a row. Now, when I'm going on vacation, I look forward to it for months. It's a big event in my life, especially when it's with friends. And this outing was exactly that. I mean, everyone knew everyone, of course, but even the resort staff started to recognize some of us coming back. We had our favorite restaurants down there, favorite bars, even favorite spots on the beach.
It had really become our thing. Now, I was usually the planner of our relationship, so I handled most of the logistics, booking the rooms at the resort, making sure people actually paid their share instead of claiming that they'd Venmo me later. That year was no different. So months before the trip, I had paid for our portion of the resort. It wasn't cheap, but we'd done it enough times that I didn't think twice about pulling the trigger. At the time, I thought I was planning this amazing vacation with my boyfriend, but it turns out that was far from the case, and I found out completely by accident. One afternoon, I was going through emails looking for a confirmation number for something completely unrelated when I noticed that I had a new message in my inbox, and it was an airline confirmation.
At first, I assumed it was ours for the trip, but it wasn't.
How did the Cancun airline confirmation reveal a cheating partner?
The booking was for my boyfriend and another woman. And the only reason it got sent to my inbox is because I'm the planner. So my email auto-populated the field when he was buying tickets. Now, there are moments in your life when you immediately know that everything in your life is about to change. And this was one of them for me. At first, sitting there through the shock, I thought there had to be some explanation. Maybe there was some catastrophic misunderstanding here, but that wasn't the case. After some very uncomfortable conversations, the truth came out. My boyfriend had been cheating on me for quite some time. And not only had he been cheating, but he had actively been planning to take this woman on the exact vacation that had been our tradition for years.
And while he had plans to break up with me beforehand, that airline confirmation sort of moved up the timeline on that. To make matters worse, a lot of the people attending the trip with us were mutual friends, so while I was dealing with the end of my relationship right in my face, I was also dealing with the humiliation of knowing that everyone would eventually find out why I wasn't there. And I think that embarrassment only added to the hurt. The breakup itself was actually pretty calm, at least initially. Once I got through my own shock, I didn't scream, I didn't try to fight. I was hurt, angry, embarrassed, but after all this talking, I was exhausted. And at that point, I just wanted to separate our lives and move on.
There was only one problem though. the money that I had already paid for the resort reservation. I mean, the flights were his responsibility. The resort had been mine. Since he was now taking another woman on the trip that I had helped pay for, I felt it was pretty reasonable to ask for my money back. Simple. I just wanted reimbursement for the vacation that I wasn't going on. But he refused. I wasn't exactly expecting that reaction, but I thought that maybe we'd work things out after any lingering emotions settled. But no, it didn't work out like that. I contacted him several times, trying to make plans to get paid out. But every time it came to that, he'd just find some different excuse. At first, it was that he couldn't afford it.
Then it turned into I was being unreasonable for even asking. Meanwhile, he was the one still planning an international vacation with his affair partner, using the accommodations that I had paid for. And it was at that point where my sympathy started running low.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:17–1:52
2
How did the Cancun airline confirmation reveal a cheating partner?
1:52–9:56
3
What was the immediate emotional fallout after discovering the affair?
9:56–16:04
4
Why did the narrator demand reimbursement and how did the ex respond?
16:04–24:05