‘Mommy, We Have to Leave This Cheater,’ My Sons Said When I Came Home and Saw Them Near Packed Car – Story of the Day

I left my lazy and jobless husband for a rich, handsome hunk, but one day, my kids exposed my new boyfriend’s ‘other side’ with proof I’d never imagined.

“Kevin…Peter…Let’s go home. Hurry up,” I took my sons to the car. I didn’t want them to meet their father. They were laughing and playing on the beach. Everything was fine and calm until I noticed the silhouette of a man. It was my husband Alex, whose very presence annoyed me.

“Why has he come here? Doesn’t he have a job other than following me around?” I grumbled. Oh yes, that’s why I’d left him. Alex was indeed jobless. He was the laziest man I’d ever seen. Did I forget to mention he was very untidy and never groomed himself?

There was no prospect of a ‘happily married life’ with Alex anymore. I regretted marrying him in the first place. I tried and even emotionally threatened to mend him, but he never changed his ways. Once, I gave him an ultimatum: “Look, if you don’t find a job and don’t learn how to be tidy, I will leave you.”

Alex took my statement for granted. He thought I was joking. But he was wrong. I took my kids and left the house a week later. I longed to live the life of my dreams, and then I met Gary…

After leaving Alex, I thought the dust had finally settled. I moved in with a friend because I had nowhere else to go. My parents were long gone, and our only house was sold to pay the mortgage my late dad left behind.

I started working as a manager in a pub and met Gary—a handsome, rich guy who any girl would blindly want to date. Not that I fell for his good looks, but I loved his sense of humor and those random flirty stares and flattering pick-up lines he wooed me with.

Gary was single, lived in his huge mansion, and his parents were abroad. And of all the women that regularly visited the pub, he liked me! So, I couldn’t resist the rich, happy life coming my way.

Gary and I started dating. We liked each other, and I told him everything about my bitter past. There was nothing to hide from him, so I introduced my nine and eight-year-old sons, Kevin and Peter. My sons kept their distance from Gary, but he was delighted to be...