A woman on Reddit shared how her husband, after 19 years of marriage, suddenly got his first tattoo: a lily on his chest. Later, he added ivy around it. She brushed it off, until she met his colleague — a woman named Lily.

Her instincts screamed the truth. Eventually, her husband confessed he’d been having an affair for two years with Lily, who had a baby named Ivy. The tattoos weren’t random — they were permanent tributes to his mistress and their child.

Broken and betrayed, the wife is now divorcing him. “I never thought I’d be 43 and starting over,” she wrote. But commenters praised her strength, reminding her she deserves better — and that the tattoos will haunt him long after she’s free.