Aitah for using my now ex after I found out he was cheating?
Here’s what people had to say to OP:
Aww, the poor darling! So sad, to be embarrassed by your new girlfriend finding out you were cheating on your old girlfriend and spoiling the end of their relationship for her! Anyway NTA, find better friends.
Not to mention “I ran into them at the farmers market where I work”
He absolutely took new girlfriend there deliberately to show off and rub it in OP’s face. Dude fucked around thinking he was invincible and found out very quickly that he’s a dumbass
Yup, cheaters often think they are slicker than shit. And forget that when you’re messing around with the one person who lives with you, they for some reason notice these little things like being out all night or over weekends.
Strange, wonder how they could’ve possibly known something was going on???
My ex had a very similar MO to OP’s ex. She’d disappear for multiple days, not answer her phone or texts. I knew.
The audacity of this man complaining about it to anyone, let alone mutual friends. He embarrassed himself!
I bow to you, OP! This is the beginning of your bad boss arc! Come back and update us in the future, I’m rooting for you!
I had been living with a boyfriend for about 9 months, we didn’t get along but I felt really stuck financially so stuck it out to get to the end of the lease. One night he broke up with me, at which point I found out he had been cheating on me for 3 months.
I went down the street, called my dad on a payphone and told him I would move with him the next week (he had asked me to but I told him I had to stay until my lease ended). When I came back and told my ex I would be gone in a week, he got super pissed because he wanted me to move to the second bedroom, keep paying half the bills while his new girlfriend moved in and didn’t pay anything.
He had the audacity to complain to our friends that I wasn’t willing to do that.
Lmao right! Like he could have ended it before cheating? How do people really think this way!?
I need a book, movie, live action play, documentary and orchestra on this because this lady played him like a fiddle lmao. Just all the tea, spilled.
NTA and soooo he deliberately bought her to the market to “accidentally” run into you for an adrenaline kick. (Mainly because he’s been feeding off adrenaline from cheating on you this whole time and now it’s gone and the fun mistress is now a daily doldrum…..) and instead you turned it all on his head and he realised he wasn’t in control this whole time… you were. Hilarious.
Beautiful revenge, revenge is best served by living your best life!
NTA
You played it exactly how you were supposed to. Very strategic.
He’s just mad he was five steps behind you when he thought he was two steps ahead.
Cheaters never prosper.
Not even strategic in a sly way, but absolutely reasonable. He did the dirt why should you have to put yourself out financially by immediately ending the relationship at the time he cheated. That’s going to cost you a huge amount in upheaval to your life. He thinks you should have shouldered that cost based on idiot logic.
He believes he should be immune to consequences of his actions and believes everyone else should be put out instead. And if I was to try and sum up everything that’s wrong in the world in terms of geopolitics right now I couldn’t do it better than that…
