This is a story of a woman who found out her best friend and husband were having an affair and decided to seek revenge.
Now first of all, this happened many years ago, around 2015. I’m only now deciding to share this story, because for one – I didn’t want it traced back to me, and two – I can’t tell anyone in my life about this because they will judge.
I married my now ex-husband when I was still a young 21 year old from a simple background from Ipoh. I moved to KL right after high school for work, getting a job at a kindergarten that was established. At 18, when I moved to KL – I knew no one and the whole city was a culture shock. My employer was not only kind but generous. She ran a Christian kindergarten and she herself was a nun.
We were given accommodation as part of the employment package and this is where I met Ava (name changed). She was not too different from me, coming from a small town in Sabah. She was around my age and was also working at the same place and living in the same house. We spent many nights giggling and chatting, talking about boys and the dreams we had. She was my support system and lifeline in KL for many years.
I met Adam (name changed) through a friend of a friend and we immediately hit it off. We were just young birds in love, spending whatever time we could together. Many times we would hang out with Ava as well as she wasn’t dating anyone and would tag along on our dates and hangouts. It never was a problem because the 3 of us were friends.
The first few years of my marriage was blissful. But around our 5th year, Adam and I started having problems. He wanted kids, and I wanted to wait a few more years while working and saving. Around this time, I had been recently promoted and just wanted to work on my career.
The kindergarten was expanding to new locations and I was the representative sent to scout for new clients and teachers as well as to set up the new location. The new project was based in Johor and I was travelling back and forth a lot. It was about 2 years of travelling every other week.
I was still close to Ava – she worked at the home office in KL and I would still see her when I was not travelling for work. By this time, she was close with me and a few other teachers and their life partners. Little did I know, my best friend of 10 years and my husband of 7 years had been having an affair behind my back for years. In all honesty, there were no signs, no red flags, nothing. But I remember the day I found out.
It happened when I had just got home from JB late at night. My husband was asleep upstairs,and I was still decompressing from my flight just chilling on the couch. I took the iPad that my husband and I share (which I rarely use) and went to the photo gallery to look for a photo my sister had been asking me to send her. As I was scrolling, I saw the latest images.
My heart dropped. There were nude photos of my best friend. On my bed. In my house.
At that moment I really felt my whole world was crumbling around me. My mind was racing and my heart was beating fast.
As my husband’s Apple ID was connected to the iPad, I could access the iMessages. I found Ava’s chat and saw that they have been chatting almost daily for the past year. That’s as far back as I scrolled. There were no messages that indicate anything more than friendship, so I suspect that he has been deleting their messages.
In that moment, filled with rage. I did something terrible. I opened his Facebook app – turned off his notifications – and proceeded to upload all of Ava’s nudes on his account. I also tagged her so it would show up on her profile.
I repacked my things, called a Grab/ Taxi that took me to a hotel, and booked the earliest flight to JB the next morning. I had landed in JB before he had even woken up, and messaged him that I had to stay back in JB for another week, so he never even knew that I was back in KL.
What unfolded next ruined many people’s lives. By the time Adam and Ava found out that those posts were online, a lot of people had already seen it and had taken screenshots.
Being in a Christian education community only made the matters worse. Ava lost her job overnight, Adam was disgraced from the community for having an affair and for sharing nudes online, and from what I heard Ava had tried to sue him.
To everyone else, I told them I found out about the affair when I “stumbled on” the pictures online. Yes, I lost some reputation and had to live through a lot of “pity” eyes from many people. But to this day I never told anyone that I was the one to post those photos. I filed for divorce and have been slowly moving on.
As I said before, I don’t regret what I did. The pain of being disappointed in a man is expected, but the betrayal of my best friend was the worst thing I ever experienced.
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