9. My college friend got married, and my husband and I hung out with them a lot. I got along really well with his wife, and we always had fun. Well, their relationship ended up being a disaster, and after almost a year of marriage counseling, she finally realized that he wasn’t going to put forth any effort to fix their relationship, so she filed for divorce. He responded by telling everyone they knew that he filed for divorce because she cheated on him, including her parents. The fucked up thing was that her parents believed him. She came from a religious family; her father was a pastor. He was also a church-going Christian. So to throw her cheating out there among their social circle made her the evil harlot, which he knew would happen.”
“To be clear, she never cheated. She tried to salvage their marriage, but he was a child and acted like he was still single the entire time. When she found out about what he did after being attacked by all these people for being a ‘whore,’ she cornered him and stood there watching while he called everyone to tell them he had lied. Of course, the damage was done.
It was going to be a clean divorce where she let him keep basically everything while she moved on, but the papers expired, and now her lawyer said she needed to have him file. Her lawyer also told her that she shouldn’t be so kind this time. She had no reason to stay in this area because he destroyed her reputation, so when the divorce was finalized, she left. People still sided with him even after knowing he was a liar, and she cut off all contact with anyone associated with him, understandably. I never spoke to him again. I don’t want to associate with someone who claims to be a ‘good Christian man’ and spreads lies like that.”
