I Caught My Wife With Her 'Best Friend' , So I Filed for Divorce on the SpotChapter 1

In three years of marriage, I had never once seen Sonia Henson on the first of the month.

No matter what was happening that day, she would head out like clockwork, claiming she was going to the movies with her best friend.

Because Sonia had told me it was a promise she and her closest girlfriend had made since childhood.

On the first of every month, they had to catch a new release. Years of habit, impossible to break.

And even married couples should give each other space.

I believed her.

For three full years, thirty-six months, I sat in an empty house and waited for her until late into the night. Never once did I disturb her.

Until this month's first, when I was organizing a drawer at home and found a stack of movie ticket stubs.

Not a single one was from a regular theater. Every last receipt came from the same private theater.

Every date fell on the first of the month.

When I saw the familiar signature on the receipts, it finally clicked. She hadn't been watching movies with a girlfriend.

She'd been going with Lucas Harding, the so-called "male best friend" who loved getting under my skin.

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