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“Don’t.” I held up my hand. “Don’t insult my intelligence with that line. It’s exactly what it looks like. You’re having an affair with your secretary and using our daughter as cover.”
She kept talking, words spilling out faster. Something about losing control. Something about it being a mistake, about feeling overwhelmed, about me never being around. All the usual excuses. Meanwhile, Ben just stood there like he was watching some drama on TV.
I looked at him. “You know what the worst part is? You made my daughter complicit in this. You used her. A five-year-old child. What kind of person does that?”
Sophia reached for my arm. “Josh, please, we can work through this…”
I pulled away. “No. We can’t. We’re done. This marriage is over.”
“You don’t mean that…”
“I’ve never meant anything more in my life.”
A startled woman | Source: Midjourney
A startled woman | Source: Midjourney
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I didn’t want to hear any more excuses. “This isn’t over. Not by a long shot.”
I slammed the door behind me, took Lizzy’s hand, and we walked out of that building. She asked me why I looked upset. I told her everything was fine, that we were just going to have a fun daddy-daughter evening.
I wasn’t fine. Not even close.
I hired a lawyer the next morning and filed for divorce and full custody. The next few months were absolute hell. The security footage from both the office building and the kindergarten confirmed everything — Ben had been picking Lizzy up regularly for weeks. The school staff assumed he had permission since he knew all the relevant details. And the office cameras caught multiple instances of them together in that conference room.
The court sided with me. Sophia lost primary custody because of her negligence and the affair. The judge wasn’t kind about it either. Using our child to facilitate an extramarital affair didn’t sit well. Sophia got supervised visits every other weekend.
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