On Again, Off Again
This is a story from my dad’s friend. In high school, my dad’s friend Carl was always into this girl Cindy, but she was always dating this other guy Jimmy.
At one point, Jimmy broke up with Cindy, and she went off the rails sleeping with everyone. Carl saw it as his chance to be the good guy and he started dating her. I’m not exactly sure of the nature of their relationship over the long run.
They either had a “Ross and Rachel” thing where they kept on breaking up and getting back together, or she was always cheating on him. Jimmy was hinting at them getting back together, though they never did. He’d just sleep with her behind Carl’s back. But, Carl never listened to my dad or his friends because of blind love. She was perfect in his eyes.
So, when high school ended, Carl went off to join the army. They weren’t officially dating, but every time he was able to come back, he’d end up with her for a night or two. My dad and his friends knew that she was sleeping around the whole time, but Carl didn’t care. Eventually, while he was still serving in the army, she convinced him that they were dating again.
He proposed to her and she accepted. She then started to look around for a house for them that he paid for with his army money. He comes back for good and they get married.
About a year later, they had a beautiful baby girl together. That baby girl is his everything. This guy grew up a migrant worker and now he had his high school sweetheart, a home, a decent job, and his own baby princess.
Little did he know his perfect life was about to be crushed. Five years later, his wife got pregnant again. This time, she had a baby boy. Now, Carl had to start working more to be able to care for the new baby while Cindy continued to be a stay-at-home mom.
When the son turned two and the girl turned seven, he came home to divorce papers and all his clothes packed up. It turns out that the wife had orchestrated everything—, particularly the house she made him buy—because it made her next-door neighbor to Jimmy.
The entire time, she was still sleeping with him. The little girl and baby boy who Carl thought was his, weren’t. They were Jimmy’s kids, and Cindy knew it. Jimmy’s partner had left him, so he finally wanted to be a family man.
Cindy jumped at the chance, kicking out Carl and divorcing him. He went into a depression and ended up losing his job because of it. I’m not sure what happened after that, but I hope Carl found a nice loving girl in the end. Story credit: Reddit / AnimalLover38