My wife uses a dating app

I found that my wife uses a dating app. I created a phony profile and matched with her. I flirted before asking for her photo. When she gave me a snapshot of herself at 20, my entire body felt paralyzed. What made things worse was that it was the first photo we had taken together at the start of our relationship. But she had cropped me out. When I arrived home that evening, my wife was in tears.

She handed me a box and urged me to open it. I froze when I spotted her wedding band inside. She said she wanted to leave me because she was unhappy. I told her I knew she was using a dating app and that I was the guy she was chatting to.

She looked astonished for a time before calmly saying it didn’t change anything. She made this decision a long time ago. She claimed she had been unhappy for two years. It all felt so sudden — like my life had flipped upside down in a single day. I had no idea she felt this way.