A 29-year-old woman shared a story on Reddit that shattered her once-happy marriage. Despite seven years and two children together, she never suspected her 30-year-old husband of infidelity. However, what she uncovered later made her wish he had cheated instead.
The woman stumbled upon a tampon in her husband’s car that clearly wasn’t hers.
«I have been with my husband for seven years, married for four. I’ve never had reason to suspect he was unfaithful to me. I wouldn‘t have questioned that, or him, were it not for a surprise I found in his car last month. When buckling our daughter into her car seat, I noticed something slotted between the cushions. I pulled it out and saw that it was a tampon.
This wouldn’t have been so unusual had I not had an IUD that has stopped my period for the past year, and I didn’t even recognize the wrapper style. I brought it to my husband’s attention, and he didn’t seem to understand what it was. He shrugged and said it probably belonged to his coworker, Fiona. It’s not uncommon for my husband to carpool to lunch with his coworkers, and we’re both fairly close to Fiona and her husband, so I figured the tampon might have slipped out of her purse whenever he had driven with them.»
She couldn’t shake off her doubts.
«I put it out of my mind until we had dinner with Fiona and her husband a couple of weeks later. I faked an „emergency“ and asked Fiona if she had any tampons while we were out together. She handed me one almost identical to the tampon I’d found in our backseat, and I breathed a sigh of relief. So the tampon there was probably the same, and in all likelihood, there was an innocent explanation as to why it had been left in the backseat in the first place.
I thought I’d seen the last of the out-of-place feminine hygiene products until I found another tampon this morning. This time in my sock drawer. I feel physically ill at the thought of my husband having an affair and even more nauseated at the thought that the woman might have left these tampons out for me to find.»
