Mom shares husband's 'mean' text to friends that ultimately ended their marriage

A mom has shared her husband's "mean" text message that ultimately became the last straw for their marriage.

She anonymously shared her story on the parenting site Kidspot, telling readers of the blog that the message in question marked the exact moment she knew she had to leave her husband and father to their two-year-old son.

The mom starts off the blog by reeling off the numerous ways her husband had shown himself to be a less-than-perfect spouse and father.

She wrote: "I can define the moment when I knew I’d leave my husband. It wasn’t when he threw a glass of wine in my face while our baby was sitting in my lap. Or when he called me 'pathetic and lazy' when I begged him, crying, to please let me sleep in just one morning.

"It was at 9:00 AM on a Friday when he was standing in a towel in our bathroom. He’d been out the night before for a friend’s birthday, and had gone straight to the spare room to sleep. I’d been up since 5:00 AM with our two-year-old, as usual."

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She continues: "He’d jumped into the shower before he even came downstairs to say hi to us and by that stage we hadn’t seen him since the previous morning."

The mom then delves into the lack of respect her husband has for her as he would never let her know in advance what his plans were for the next. Doing so would have felt like "asking permission", he said, according to her.

She continued: "But no matter how many millions of times we argued about his lack of communication and involvement, nothing ever changed.

"So when I heard his phone pinging repeatedly when he was showering, I wanted to see what was going on. By that stage, I suspected he’d been cheating on me. He was betraying me, but in an unexpected way."

She then proceeded to click through to her husband and his friends' group chat, and was stunned beyond belief to see one of his messages about her.

It read: "Don’t think I can make it tonight. SWMBO will say no."

Not knowing what the acronym meant, she immediately asked her husband who told her it stood for "She Who Must Be Obeyed".

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The mother recalled: "I’ll never forget that look of defiance on his face. No remorse. No apology. I felt like I’d been slapped across the face. I put up with never knowing if he’d be home for dinner, never knowing if he’d be around for me to go out to have a haircut or see my friends.

"I let him get away with it, because it involved too much arguing – it was easier to just ask my mum to help. It was easier to co-parent with my mum than it was with the father of my child."

The incident made her realize that her husband did not "deserve" her and their child.

She concluded: "My toddler and I were out of there within a week. Since then, he’s never forgiven me for 'taking my son away' from him. The son whom he lived with, but barely saw."

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