My husband cheated and I only found out because he gave me an STI
A woman who only found out her husband was cheating because he gave her an STI has opened up about how the shocking discovery tore her world apart.
The woman, who will be referred to as the pseudonym Olivia throughout the story as she asked to remain anonymous, explained exclusively to DailyMail.com that she met her husband online during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020.
They hit it off immediately and bonded over late night calls and hours of messaging.
They eventually bought a place together in Philadelphia and went on to tie the knot and welcome their two children in quick succession.
But their marriage was completely shattered after Olivia discovered that her husband had been unfaithful to her... only after she developed a nasty sexually transmitted infection.
She told DailyMail.com that she first developed symptoms about two weeks ago, but initially thought it was a UTI.
'I remember I started noticing this greenish discharge coming from me and it had a foul smell,' she explained.
'I thought it was a UTI because I normally get those all the time so I just shrugged it off.'
She mentioned it to her husband, who went and got some UTI medicine for her.
'At this time he knew slept with that girl and been keeping it a secret. He knew he had the STI and wasn't going to say anything,' Olivia scathed.
Despite taking the medicine, Olivia said her symptoms weren't going away, in fact, they were getting worse.
'Then it starts getting super irritated and itchy, that's when I knew something was off,' she continued.
'Something kept telling me maybe he's not being faithful to you. But I thought it was just my anxiety because I would've never thought he would sleep with someone else.'
But as time went on Olivia's suspicions grew, so she decided to confront her husband.
She recalled, 'I was like, "I think you've been unfaithful." And he was like, "I don't know what's you're talking about I didn't do anything."
'I'm like, "You gave me something I know you did,' but he kept denying it."'
While she let it go in the moment, Olivia was still unconvinced, so a few days later, she asked if she could use his phone for something.
She then 'went snooping,' and found shocking messages between him and another woman that confirmed her suspicions.
Rather than asking him about them, she gave him the cold shoulder and he eventually confessed to everything.
Her husband then revealed that he was sleeping with one of his exes and had caught the STI trichomoniasis from the woman and spread it to Olivia.
'A week later he confessed he said it was eating him up that he was keeping something like this from me,' she revealed.
'My heart shattered. Everything stood still that day it felt like it was a fever dream.
'I couldn't believe my ears. I thought it was a joke - I wanted him to be joking so bad but he wasn't.
'I felt so disgusted with myself I just wanted to vomit, I felt violated in the worst way possible.'
She said she 'cried' and 'screamed' at her husband and recalled being 'filled with rage.'
'If it wasn't for the STI I probably would've never known he cheated on me,' she added.
'I hate that it took a STI to show me that he cheated because I'm still suffering from it still even though I got treatment. I just don't want nothing to do with him anymore.'
Olivia has now decided to leave her husband, and is now preparing to be a single mom to their two kids.
'I know it'll hurt to leave him but in order for me to be at peace with myself and not think about the cheating and all the stress it put me through I'd rather be a single mom,' she concluded. 'At least I don't have to worry about catching anything else.'
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