AITAH For kicking my wife of over a decade out of the house for cheating on me again?
The user (31M) and his wife (30F) have a long history, having been high school sweethearts who built a life together, including marriage and children.
However, this foundation has been repeatedly undermined by the wife's history of in***elity, which includes at least a dozen instances of cheating throughout their relationship.
Following three days of extensive holiday travel, the user agreed to let his wife visit her sad best friend, trusting her despite her past actions.
When she returned late, having been out for over four hours past the time she mentioned, the user discovered she had spent that time with a coworker she had been cheating with, leading him to publicly expose her actions and kick her out, leaving him to question if he was right to protect himself.
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The original poster is grappling with the emotional fallout of yet another betrayal by his wife, a pattern of behavior that has consistently broken his trust over the course of their long relationship.
His current action is a direct response to protect his own emotional well-being from what he perceives as repeated a**se.
The central conflict lies between the OP's need for self-preservation through immediate separation and the history and commitment of their shared life.
The question presented to the reader is whether the OP was justified in taking drastic public and private action to end the relationship immediately to safeguard his emotional health against a clear pattern of in***elity.
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