AITA for hating the other woman my husband fell in love with while she had cancer ?
Betrayal cuts deepest when it comes from the one you vowed to love forever. She stands at the crossroads of heartbreak and confusion, watching the man she married slip away into the arms of a woman who once battled for her life.
The tangled emotions of love, hate, guilt, and sorrow clash violently within her, leaving her trapped in a storm of feelings she never saw coming.
Surrounded by indifference and even romanticizing voices from her own family, she feels isolated in her pain, forbidden to express the raw hatred burning inside her.
Torn between wishing the new woman well and resenting the life that’s been stolen from her, she grapples with the impossible question: how can you hate the one who healed when love itself is breaking apart?
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The original poster is in a deeply conflicted emotional state, experiencing a mix of relief for the ex-partner's new partner's recovery and intense personal hatred for the individual who is ending her marriage.
The central conflict lies between the OP's understandable feelings of betrayal and anger toward her husband and the societal pressure, including from her own family, to suppress her negative feelings toward the other woman due to the narrative of a romantic story overcoming illness.
Given the profound emotional impact of the situation, is it appropriate or acceptable for the OP to feel intense personal hatred toward the third party, even while wishing her well health-wise, especially when facing dismissal of her pain from her own family members?
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