Letter from an enraged wife to OW (craigslist)

[Abitwobblynow]

No, really, Thank You! You have no idea what a nightmare you have just saved me and my kids from.

To reward you for your services I am offering you my husband for keeps. Should you accept your prize please note the following rules.

1. You are going to have to financially support him. I say this because we have 2 children together (but you knew that) which means that he will have to give up a sizeable chunk of his pay to support them in the manner they deserve. Please keep in mind that since he has kept me a stay at home Mom for the better part of the last 11 years he will also be paying me alimony. So forget about his money honey.....cause it's mine!

1. You will have to provide him with new attire. You see after he stepped from our (now mine) shower this morning dripping wet and naked is when I discovered your little "love bites". It just so happened that at that EXACT moment a giant black hole appeared in my home and devoured almost all of his clothing. Therefore he will come to you almost naked (lucky you). The bright side is that you can dress him any way you want. Go nuts and buy him a leash and some vinyl attire while your at it.

1. You will have to give him up every other weekend. This time will be set aside for his visits with his children. Since he openly admitted (in front of several people) that you are just "some dumb drunk bitch" that he met at a "tweakers" house you will be banned from these visits for fear of my children's safety. Just so you know, that is also going to be the reason to have his visits limited (if not supervised). After all WTF was HE doing at a "tweakers" house in the first place?

1. You will NOT return him to me. I will NOT have him. He fd up when he touched you! I was a good wife to him and he had a good thing going on here. Don't be surprised if you don't live up to me because you wont and he will make you miserable for it!

1. He will blame you for ALL of this. He told me with tears in his eyes, you said you wanted me to see the bites. I don't really care. However, just in case you did, your wish came true. I did see it, and he's pissed. He's so mad that you made that comment that when I punched him in the eye he apologized to me! Yes, I know violence is wrong and to be honest I've never hit anyone before. However, I am not sorry that I did and if I could have that moment back I would have simply aimed lower!

1. This one isn't really a rule, more like a friendly warning. I will make sure to take up as much of his time with the most petty sht I can find to spite you. I will make it my hobby to hurt him and you the same amount my kids are hurting right now. Please be aware that he will take it, he will eat my sht for years with a smile. I was with him for 12 years, I know him better. Yes, I do feel completely justified in my actions. Just in case you were wondering.

So Thank you for showing me that 11 years and 2 children were no match for you! I applaud you on a man well won. HE'S ALL YOURS!

Brilliant!!! OP.

I dont' think the Op wrote it....she clearly says its from Craigslist.

Anyway...the OW does deserve spite. Just as much as the DH. I would NEVER go near a married man or a man who lived with his partner and had DC.Thats because it's disgusting behaviour.

Only one thing missing, wobbly:

PS My solicitor is a rottweiler; forget no fault divorce - we'll be going for broke (as in 'he will be'). You'll be named as co-respondent on my divorce petition with the expectation that the Court will order you to pay a proportion of my legal costs. Have a nice day.

Am I typing in invisible ink or summat?

The letter wasn't written by the OP.

OP - have you posted this just to get people's knickers in a knot or are you a wronged wife considering sending this sort of letter to someone? Or do you just have strong feelings about the content and want to see other MNers' reactions?

Do explain .

Bunny - I get you. We are in our own little world .

I don't like it. I don't think it's big and clever at all and I certainly wouldn't go around boasting about punching my husband in the face. And to those of you who say he deserved it, imagine this: "I punched my wife in the face and I don't regret it, I'd do it again" - yay good on you OP - she probably deserved it!

Dignity is not over-rated. The OW promised this woman nothing. The husband however -

Not me, folks, it was on Craigslist and I c&p. Personally, me the OP in real life, I chose the high road.

I think the clue is in 'enraged' And finding out that your life, your relationship, your safety and your dreams, and those of your children, have just been trashed - does tend to make you unhinged.

You get over it but it does unhinge you in a PTSD way.

So people that think "fair play," think that it's perfectly acceptable to use one's children as pawns in revenge games then? To threaten loss of access as punishment to the husband for straying?

However much the man would have been in the wrong to do what he did, the children are blameless victims.

And if that's the way the wife behaves as a general rule I'm not surprised the relationship was a mess.

Reported - this has been bouncing around the internet for years in various forms.

www.craigslist.org/about/best/sea/230341349.html

ahh, xpost.

Why post 6 year old stuff on here?

babyheave I don't get why something being old is a reportable offence?

Unhinged. Quite.

Don't damage your head bunny; it's obvious from the OP that the script was taken from craiglist.

I suspect that wobbly has put it forward as a realistic alternative to:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/relationships/1387482-Anyone-seen-the-new-MN-section-on-surviving-an-affair

I wasn't on parenting forums 6 yrs ago - no harm done, babyheave ?

Reported???!!! WTF?

Ok, the OP didn't write it! Whoever did write it said..

'He fd up when he touched you! I was a good wife to him and he had a good thing going on here. Don't be surprised if you don't live up to me'

So good he shagged someone else! I would probably omit that part of the letter if I was publicly spewing bile.

I was upset that it started off with hurting himn financially. We have to sort the money out as women. We can't use money as a weapon to hurt men, that;s taking us right back to square one.

Thanks, Izzy! And Bunny and Poozle

Lets not all get righteous and po-faced here, shall we? The point of the enraged unhinged might be: actions have consequences.

Yes - like punching someone in the face can carry assault charges.

@ mucky
"So forget about his money honey.....cause it's mine!" - I am in awe!

If she'd behaved with dignity, told him to leave calmly, not been a psycho..the consequences most probably would have been that he would have mourned the loss of a 'good' relationship and being fully part of his children's lives. He would have had to have seen his children being raised mainly by another man. He would realise that his actions caused this.

As it is, the consequences will be that he ends up utterly hating her, and trying to hurt her back. The end result will be misery for both AND the children. He would probably be able to justify the affair because she is behaving like a psycho and everyone will side with him.

how odd to refer to her husband as a possession and an object

no wonder he went elsewhere :)

if i was the husband, i would be thanking my lucky stars i had escaped the psycho nutjob