
My husband and I lived together for almost forty years. During that time, we had children, built a house, started a small but successful business, and bought a good car. We lacked nothing and always tried to live in harmony. Our children grew up, started their own families, and we dreamed of a peaceful, cozy old age together.
But one day, everything collapsed.

I noticed my husband started behaving strangely – hiding his phone, coming home late, and taking better care of himself, like in his youth. I didn’t need to be a detective to understand: there was another woman in his life. And as it turned out later, she wasn’t just any woman, but a 19-year-old girl with the looks of a model. She could have been our granddaughter.
I immediately realized she didn’t want love – she wanted money. My husband, blinded by her youth and fake devotion, was sure he had found his “second youth.” After a few months, he told me he wanted a divorce to marry her. Can you imagine? Forty years of marriage, a shared life, children, memories – and he was ready to throw it all away for a stranger who called him “bunny” and made a face when he laughed at the wrong time.

He and his “love” were happy – wedding, photoshoots, travels. They thought life would now be rosy. But there was something they didn’t know.
Many years ago, when we started the business and bought the house, on a lawyer’s advice, we put all the property in our children’s names.
Formally, my husband and I owned nothing: no house, no business, no accounts. Everything belonged to the children. He forgot that. And she never knew.
And when the honeymoon was over, the questions started:
– “Why can’t you sell the business?”
– “Where is your car?”
– “Why are we renting an apartment instead of living in your house?”
– “You said you had everything…”

When the truth came out, she packed her bags and left. She simply left my ex with empty hands and a broken heart.
A few months later, he came back to me. Aged, gray-haired, with eyes full of remorse. He cried. Begged for forgiveness. Said he understood everything, that I was the only one. That he wanted to come back.
But I was no longer the same. I didn’t need revenge. I simply said calmly:
– Sorry, but I no longer want to be with a man for whom a young body was more important than forty years of love, family, and trust.
I left, leaving him at the door. And ahead of me — was life. Mine. True. Free.
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