The list of evidence published in court left the man’s own mother wishing “the shocking messages” had been shown sooner, to save many of them the “humiliation” of his prolonged court testimony.
A woman went online under the guise of seeking advice following a recent court victory against her ex-husband and his new wife.
However, it was quite clear that she was finally looking for a suitable place to celebrate – especially as her two children were worried.
Enter the wonderful anonymity of Reddit and its discussion forum AITA (I’m the idiot).
In a post titled “AITA for letting my ex and his wife make fools of themselves in court?”, the woman detailed her bitter divorce and the consequences her ex-partner suffered with their children as a result of his alleged cheating.
Fast forward to now, the original poster (aka “OP”) recently received a legal battle over a trivial dispute raised by said ex, who claimed to be a victim of “parental alienation.” It wasn’t all that successful, as many sports fans know, but as she defeated her ex, which made everything so much sweeter.
Keep reading to see the full story… and how Redditors reacted.
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The authentic AITA Reddit post
The OP started the submission with some personal information as background.
“I (33f) have two children (11m and 9f) with my ex Liam (35m),” she wrote. “2 years ago, he turned our world upside down, revealing his affair in the most confusing way possible (more on that in a second) and declaring that he wanted to marry his partner Jean (37f). This led me to file for divorce.”
Then came the first positioning detail, involving how the man’s supposed affair was first discovered.
“My children realized the case before I did,” said OP. “Liam took Jean to meet the children outside of school and tried to tell them that she was going to be their new mother and asked the children to tell me that they wanted to live with him and Jean.”
“That morning the kids left a house they thought was happy and safe with mom and dad, and when school let out, the dad showed up with a strange girl and admitted he had been dishonest (even if not directly) and they were getting a new home,” she continued. “I got a call from the school because the kids were upset and I ran back to the coach after Liam pulled this stunt.”
That morning the kids left a home they thought was happy and safe with their mom and dad, and when school let out, their dad showed up with a strange girl and admitted that he had been dishonest (even if not directly) and they were getting a new house.
Then came the divorce proceedings and custody battles.
“Liam attempted to gain sole custody of the children during our divorce and stated his intention for Jean to take care of them. This was not effectively achieved by the courts and resulted in some aspects of our divorce being extended due to the fact that he claimed made him eligible for everything raised by the marriage, despite me working for it all too. So he’s well known and has made a fool of himself in court before.
In fact, as you can imagine, “Liam married Jean shortly after our divorce was finalized.”
Then came another level of pettiness, per OP.
“In the period since the divorce, and even since Liam revealed his affair, there has been an additional source of battle,” she joked.
“When we were together, we worried the children about celebrating and planning each birthday. Along with ours. It became a little candy tradition where the kids would ‘help’ me make dinner for him and he would invite the kids to pick my favorite food,” she explained. “We help them save for their birthday gift too. He predicted this would happen after the divorce and that Jean would be included. My brother took over the children’s service because they requested it. But young people don’t do it for him or Jean. Liam claims I should help them do it or I should have my brother help them do it for him and Jean.
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The courts then became concerned.
“He claims this is parental alienation; my refusal to follow this custom for him and Jean or to have my brother do it in my place. So he took action in the courts and we had a trial date recently where he was spewing all this nonsense,” OP continued. “He made this statement that we had promised to do this for each other and how he stood his ground until I refused, and so on. And the way I wanted to negatively affect his and Jean’s relationship with the kids.”
So I got here OP’s receipts, proofs, schedule, screenshots.
“I let him go on his rants and ravings and then confirmed documented proof that he was lying (text messages and emails exchanged on this very subject). Jean was also part of these speeches. They were upset, as was my ex-MIL, after the judge dismissed the charges and they were both reprimanded for foolishness. The ex-MIL said I could have cut everyone’s time and spared her humiliation by simply displaying the previous shocking messages (to quote her).
She concluded her post with the obligatory question to fellow Redditors: “AITA?”
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“It’s practically as if your children have personal ideas and emotions!” And different observations from Reddit
It was actually a convincing verdict from the NTA (not the idiot one), but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t a lot of outrage out there.
In fact, many chimed in on the feedback to easily double down on the OP’s defense.
As the top-rated remark said: “NTA. I would have thought that a judge would need to hear the appellant’s entire statement, and I cannot imagine that the judge would have seemed very gracious about his interruption.
“The former MIL may have cut everyone’s time out of raising her son to be truthful, but hey, nothing will be done about that now,” they further noted. “I wonder, but if your ex wants his kids so badly to have help preparing for his and Jean’s birthdays, why doesn’t Jean help them on his birthday and he helps them on hers? Because expecting you/your brother to do that is just…haha.”
Let him shout from the cavernous empty house where his ability to see reality should reside.
To which OP responded, “He expects this from me/my brother because his kids’ relationship with him has suffered since the big reveal he made and they don’t like Jean at all. So something they do with them is not so prepared that they don’t want to party. That’s why he’s trying to arrest me so they can be more prepared, which I really don’t think they are.
Another Redditor responded in the same thread: “It’s almost like your kids have their own thoughts and feelings! How could he have planned something so unprecedented?! Let him shout from the cavernous empty house where his ability to see reality should reside. Your absurd and stupid arguments before the court will only further help you and your children to remove them from that environment.”
Elsewhere, OP wrote: “That’s basically it. He is shocked that he destroyed his relationship with our children and is equally, if not more shocked, that the kids have not fallen madly in love with Jean as Mom 2.0.”
But the angry comments came to an abrupt end after forum moderators removed the post with a warning.
First, they noted, as we did above, that the story did not actually seek judgment from the AITA team. Instead, it was a celebration of revenge well served.
“This post violates Rule 7,” the moderators wrote. “There is no interpersonal battle here that our team can make a judgment about.”
“This post violates Rule 13: No revenge stories,” they added. “It seems like your story would be better suited to one of the many revenge-focused subreddits.”
What do you suppose?
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