My dad had an affair with his best friend’s wife.<\/p>\n
Let’s call her Jane.<\/p>\n
Jane claimed she was in love with my father, and apparently my dad believed her.<\/p>\n
My parents had been divorced since 2005, so I honestly didn’t care what my dad did with his personal life.<\/p>\n
Until someone started sending my mother anonymous messages.<\/p>\n
At first, they were just nasty.<\/p>\n
\u201cLeave him alone.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cYou ruined everything.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Then they became crueler.<\/p>\n Every day.<\/p>\n Sometimes multiple times a day.<\/p>\n My mother tried ignoring them.<\/p>\n Eventually, she couldn’t.<\/p>\n One afternoon, I received a Facebook Messenger message from a brand-new account.<\/p>\n It said:<\/p>\n \u201cYour father is sleeping with his best friend’s wife.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n I already knew.<\/p>\n But I didn’t know who was sending the messages to my mom.<\/p>\n We confronted Dad.<\/p>\n He finally admitted the affair.<\/p>\n \u201cYes, I’m seeing Jane,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Then he insisted:<\/p>\n \u201cBut Jane isn’t sending those messages.\u201d<\/p>\n I asked why he was so certain.<\/p>\n He told us Jane’s husband was receiving the exact same kind of messages.<\/p>\n That made things even stranger.<\/p>\n My mother and I exchanged a look.<\/p>\n We both had the same suspicion.<\/p>\n Jane.<\/p>\n Dad immediately became furious.<\/p>\n \u201cYou two have no proof!\u201d<\/p>\n Mom calmly replied:<\/p>\n \u201cThen why are you so sure it’s not her?\u201d<\/p>\n Dad stormed out.<\/p>\n For the next several days, the messages continued.<\/p>\n Then one morning, Mom received one that made her blood run cold.<\/p>\n \u201cYou should be careful who you trust. Someone close to you knows everything.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n That wasn’t a random insult.<\/p>\n It sounded like a warning.<\/p>\n Mom went to the police.<\/p>\n They told her to save everything.<\/p>\n Phone numbers.<\/p>\n Screenshots.<\/p>\n Dates.<\/p>\n Times.<\/p>\n We started keeping records.<\/p>\n Then something changed.<\/p>\n The messages stopped coming to Mom.<\/p>\n Instead, they started going to me<\/strong>.<\/p>\n One message said:<\/p>\n \u201cYour mother is lying to you.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Another said:<\/p>\n \u201cAsk your father what happened the night he met Jane.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n I showed Dad.<\/p>\n His face changed.<\/p>\n For the first time, he looked genuinely frightened.<\/p>\n He called Jane immediately.<\/p>\n She denied everything.<\/p>\n But that same night, my dad received a message from an unknown number.<\/p>\n It said:<\/p>\n \u201cShe told you I would never find out.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Dad froze.<\/p>\n I asked him what that meant.<\/p>\n He didn’t answer.<\/p>\n The next morning, Jane’s husband contacted my mother.<\/p>\n He had discovered something.<\/p>\n The anonymous messages weren’t coming from some stranger.<\/p>\n They were being sent through an online texting service using temporary numbers.<\/p>\n But he’d managed to trace one of the accounts to an email address.<\/p>\n And that email address belonged to Jane<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Dad refused to believe it.<\/p>\n Until we showed him the evidence.<\/p>\n Jane had been sending the messages to both spouses.<\/p>\n She wanted my mother frightened enough to back away from Dad.<\/p>\n And she wanted her own husband to believe that someone else was trying to destroy their marriage.<\/p>\n But there was something even worse.<\/p>\n Jane hadn’t just been manipulating Dad.<\/p>\n She had been telling him that her husband was abusive and dangerous.<\/p>\n She convinced Dad that if the affair ever became public, her husband would hurt them both.<\/p>\n That was why Dad had defended her so aggressively.<\/p>\n He wasn’t protecting Jane.<\/p>\n He was protecting the story she’d built around him.<\/p>\n When Dad confronted her with the evidence, she finally admitted it.<\/p>\n She cried.<\/p>\n She apologized.<\/p>\n She said she had been afraid of losing him.<\/p>\n Dad ended the relationship immediately.<\/p>\n But the damage was already done.<\/p>\n Jane’s marriage ended too.<\/p>\n My mother never took Dad back.<\/p>\n And honestly, I don’t blame her.<\/p>\n The strangest part is that my dad’s affair wasn’t what broke the family apart.<\/p>\n It was the lies surrounding it.<\/p>\n Years later, Dad told me something I’ll never forget.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought Jane loved me.\u201d<\/p>\n I looked at him and said:<\/p>\n \u201cMaybe she did. But love doesn’t require you to destroy everyone around you.\u201d<\/p>\n He didn’t argue.<\/p>\n He just nodded.<\/p>\n Because by then, he finally understood what we’d been trying to tell him from the beginning.<\/p>\n The woman he’d risked everything for had never been the person he thought she was.<\/strong><\/p>\n My Dad Had an Affair With His Best Friend\u2019s Wife\u2014Then Someone Started Threatening My Mom My dad had an affair with his best friend’s wife. Let’s call her Jane. 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